{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:182","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Betrayal of Interests","number":"182","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/182/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 7. — Offences against the Administration of Justice"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"An advocate, attorney, procurator or legal advisor, who knowingly, in litigation of any kind before any judicial or quasi-judicial tribunal, betrays the legal interests he has been instructed to defend, officially or by personal brief, whether by sacrificing the interests of the party for whom he appears or by acting simultaneously for both parties to the same case","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/182/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":152,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/152/?article=182&paragraph=lead#article-182-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of betrayal of interests, a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/182/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":152,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/152/?article=182&paragraph=u2#article-182-u2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}