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title: "Legal Ethics Violation Defense"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/legal-ethics-violation-defense-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Ethics Commission dispute: 15 members, appeal within one month to the Disciplinary Chamber, closed hearing. Advocate defence. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-05"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Legal Ethics Violation Defense

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/legal-ethics-violation-defense-en

## About this service

A dispute with the Ethics Commission of the Georgian Bar Association is the central track of the profession's disciplinary system: this body checks incoming information about an advocate, studies its validity and decides the question of disciplinary liability. This page describes the commission's composition, restrictions on membership, grounds for termination of powers and the full route of appeal — deadlines, parties and the form of the process. In practice these details decide outcomes: the lawfulness of the commission's composition, the admissibility of the source of information and the observance of the appeal deadline are often more important than the substantive side.

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### How is the Ethics Commission composed?

The commission consists of 15 members, of whom no fewer than 12 are advocates; the members are elected by the General Assembly for a 4-year term, and an advocate member must be at least 30 years old with no less than 5 years of professional experience.

### Can a dispute be started by an anonymous letter?

No — an anonymous letter or notification may not by law serve as a ground for considering the question of an advocate's disciplinary liability.

### How much time do I have to appeal the decision?

One month from the handing over of the decision. The complaint is filed with the Ethics Commission, which forwards the case to the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court within 1 week; the hearing is closed and becomes public at the request of both parties.

### Who are the parties before the Chamber?

The parties are the Georgian Bar Association as a public-law legal entity and the advocate upon whom the disciplinary sanction was imposed.