The nature of the power of attorney and the role of ethical considerations in it

Abstract

Background: Jurisprudence is a science whose basis is moral and the word of any legal institution, especially the power of attorney is based on representation and permission of a person is based on morality. It is shown in the history of civilization, history and the evolution of peoples and nations that there have always been people have taken on the task of defending and realizing the right for another and in another name, where the person did not have the help and ability. Therefore, in according to this ethical issue, attorney representation is considered irreplaceable and permissible.

Conclusion: The attorney representation is usually known through two faces, which both of them are based on ethics and its continuity is also based on ethics. Its main face is the "attorney representation" that is the subject of the civil law, whose general rules are defined in terms of definition and conditions of its conclusion and its effects in this law.  The other face is "judicial representation of attorney" which is mainly viewed with the same principles of civil advocacy. Advocacy, as well as close to civil advocacy contains a special nature of independent contractual representation influenced by the help of the people and the defense of the oppressed as a matter of ethics under the guise of observing the interests of the client.

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