{"id":572746,"date":"2026-08-31T23:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572746"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:48:39","slug":"belarusian-justice-ministry-revokes-lawyer-s-license-for-actions-discrediting-the-legal-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-justice-ministry-revokes-lawyer-s-license-for-actions-discrediting-the-legal-profession","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Justice Ministry Revokes Lawyer&#8217;s License for &#8220;Actions Discrediting the Legal Profession&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Qualification Commission for Legal Practice in Belarus has revoked the license of lawyer Raman Shpakouski. He worked at the Minsk City Bar Association.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The grounds for this decision were Shpakouski R.I.&#8217;s commission of misconduct incompatible with the title of lawyer (actions discrediting the title of lawyer and the legal profession),&#8221;<\/em> the Justice Ministry reported.<\/p>\n<p>Raman Shpakouski worked as a tax lawyer. He is the author of the popular Telegram channel &#8220;Taxes, Business and Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll | Raman Shpakouski.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A regular certification of lawyers was also held on August 31. As a result, a decision was made that Yury Stashkevich did not fully comply with the requirements of the law, with his certification postponed for six months.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2020 protests, the Justice Ministry repeatedly revoked lawyers&#8217; licenses for &#8220;misconduct incompatible with the title of lawyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Qualification Commission for Legal Practice in Belarus has revoked the license of lawyer Raman Shpakouski. He worked at the Minsk City Bar Association. &#8220;The grounds for this decision were Shpakouski R.I.&#8217;s commission of misconduct incompatible with the title of lawyer (actions discrediting the title of lawyer and the legal profession),&#8221; the Justice Ministry reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a9604caa38a8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Justice Ministry Revokes Lawyer\u2019s License for \u00abActions Discrediting the Legal Profession\u00bb"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}