Legal legal activity currently covers the most diverse spheres of society. The literature uses various approaches to its study and the definition of its very concept. Let us further consider what constitutes legal activity, the goals and objectives of the entities involved in it.
Definition
Some researchers consider legal activity as constant work on normative texts (court orders, laws, literature). In the framework of this approach, specialists involved in this field constantly overcome personal attitudes, show objectivity, use professional terms such as guilt, competence, responsibility, etc. The purpose of legal activity of this kind is to ensure regulatory protection of public order and security, respect for contractual relations, control of legality, justice, equality. Other researchers focus on the practical component. The authors emphasize that the work of lawyers is based on the law formed by civilization and aimed at establishing an appropriate framework for the behavior of the state and society. It is associated with the consideration and resolution of specific cases. The form of legal activity, according to researchers, can be both normative and non-normative. In the latter case, it is based on moral, social rules, customs, traditions, etc. In this case, legal activity ensures the achievement of a common and normative culture. This, in turn, helps to create order.
Social background and conditionality
Legal activity is distinguished by the most important integrative properties. It promotes the integration of all components of the regulatory space. This, in turn, allows you to highlight the main areas that cover legal activity. The goals and objectives of the institute are focused on satisfying public and private interests within the framework of the law. The social origin and conditionality of the work allow us to talk about its necessity and practical significance. Thanks to this, many specific interests and needs of society that are directly based on norms are satisfied.
Institute structure
Legal activity has a specific structure. Inside it, there are elements and relationships in such a manner that ensures the integrity of the structure, preservation of its objectively necessary functions and properties under the influence of various factors of reality. Analysis of the structure involves the study of practice in the dialectical complex of its form and content. The latter contributes to the disclosure of the totality of internal elements and properties, illustrating organization methods, external expression. The components of legal activity are its subjects, participants and objects, actions and operations, methods and means of their implementation, decisions that are made by authorized institutions and persons, as well as the results of measures taken.
The objects
They are all that the legal activity and operations performed by the subjects are directed at. The objects may be public relations, intangible goods specific behavior of people, other phenomena and objects.All of them are included in the relevant legal process and serve the satisfaction of private and public interests.
Participants and subjects
They act as carriers, managing the "centers" of practical activity. Without subjects, practice is impossible. They act as carriers of regulatory relations. For example, they include courts in relevant practice. Participants are individuals. To one degree or another, they assist entities in carrying out operations and performing certain actions. In investigative practice, for example, the participants are victims and witnesses.
Operations and Activities
Legal activity includes externally expressed, entailing specific consequences, socially transforming acts of participants and subjects. For example, it could be a document signing. A set of legal actions related to each other, united by a common goal, forms an operation. For example, inspection of the scene involves various behavioral acts.
Facilities
They are methods, phenomena, objects permitted by law and used to provide the necessary result. They form the instrumental part of the practice. Funds are used to identify and record facts, analyze events, make and process decisions, and ensure control over their implementation. All these tools are divided into:
- Public. To them, for example, include moral and other social norms.
- Special legal. This category includes, in particular, contracts, regulatory principles.
- Technical. They represent a variety of tools and instruments.
The same tool can be used in different ways. In a complex, all tools form legal technique.
Experience
It occupies a special place in practice. Legal experience can express both the cumulative result of all activity, and its certain moments. Its formation takes place in the selection process in specific operations, results, decisions made of the most useful, advanced, appropriate, general, which is of key importance for the normative regulation of relations and the subsequent improvement of the practice of the element. The components of legal experience are legal provisions. They are quite stable, developed over many years, regulations that have a common focus. They accumulate stable and socially valuable fragments of a certain practice. The provisions may be law enforcement and law-making, explanatory and administrative, notarial and judicial, protective and regulatory, advisory and binding.
Legal activity
The structure of the institute under consideration is not only formed by the above institutions. A special place in the system is occupied by the form of legal activity. Considering it, it is necessary to highlight the external and internal sides. The first is expressed in various acts-documents. They can be investigative, judicial, individual, notarial, regulatory and so on. They record operations, methods and means of their implementation, as well as decisions made. The internal form is the procedural procedural design practice. It establishes the circle of subjects, participants, the scope of their duties and rights, as well as the conditions for entering into legal relations and withdrawing from them, the procedure for using the means and methods, the time and date of performing certain operations.
Types of legal activity: law enforcement
In this area, the highest concentration of specialists is noted. This is due to the fact that it is in the field of law enforcement that all kinds of sanctions are used (administrative, criminal), various kinds of disputes are being investigated (housing, family, civil, labor, etc.).The purpose of legal activity is to ensure the safety of citizens, the safety of property belonging to them and the state. Sanctions can have a significant impact on the status of the individuals to whom they apply. Often, punishment fundamentally changes the very life of subjects. In this regard, the application of certain penalties must be approached objectively and carefully, guided exclusively by the letter of the law. The legal activities of law enforcement agencies are strictly regulated by standards. The main specialists involved in this field include PD inspectors, employees of penal institutions, prosecutors, judges, interrogators, experts, investigators, bailiffs, etc.
Politics
In all governing bodies there are special legal departments, in which often a lot of specialists work. There are also advisers in the local government. Moreover, in the Russian Federation, lawyers are involved only in the current work of institutions. They are preparing draft regulatory documents. Decisions of state or territorial significance themselves are taken directly by politicians (deputies, the president, heads of administrations, etc.).
Economy
The legal activity of an organization engaged in the production, sale, and any other business activity involves signing contracts, agreements, accepting, fulfilling obligations, etc. At present, almost all large enterprises have a staff of relevant specialists. They provide legal support for activities. The range of issues that such employees solve is quite wide. In order to effectively implement their functions, specialists must be well versed in land, financial, civil, labor laws, and court procedures. Entrepreneurial legal activity is quite common today. Many enterprises use the services of independent consultants, experts in the field of legislation, trusting them to represent interests in court and government agencies. Individual legal activity is regulated by law. Normative acts determine the conditions under which the subject is allowed to engage in it.
Social sphere
Lawyers in social protection bodies are very demanded today. These structures are involved in the assignment of pensions and benefits to needy citizens. There are lawyers in the employment service. Here, issues related to unemployment are handled professionally. In particular, unemployed citizens are kept records, their retraining is carried out, benefits are paid.
Work specifics
Mutual conditioning of the development of all elements of legal practice is provided by external, internal, reverse, direct, functional, regulatory and non-normative relations and relations. With their help, information, work results are interchanged. They provide control over the implementation of the powers and functions of specialists. Legal profession arose much later than the state appeared. Quite a lot of time passed before these specialists became popular in society. In the initial stages, courts acted as them. They were solely involved in law enforcement in the application of state coercive measures. Over time, the courts, in addition to sentencing, began to consider a variety of disputes between people. The entry of civilization into the industrial era, the formation of corporations gave rise to a huge number of economic conflicts. At present, it is almost impossible to win a case, even sometimes simple, without the participation of a lawyer. Do not do without such specialists and enterprises. Farsighted managers accept lawyers to avoid disputes with partners.All significant decisions are made only with their participation. Lawyers are particularly important in the political system. Their knowledge is necessary when developing bills, resolving administrative issues, and so on.
Conclusion
Legal activity is considered one of the most popular today. The key focus of this work is to ensure the protection of the interests of subjects. At the same time, legal activity is focused on creating the proper conditions for the normal existence of society and the state. The laws that are adopted today fix specific regulations, rules, and behaviors. Rule-making, as a type of legal activity, is of great practical importance. It is from the law that all attitudes defining the boundaries of what is permitted come from. Legal is of no small importance. economic activities subjects. It includes the conclusion of transactions, the signing of contracts, the performance of duties and much more.
All these actions should be carried out within the framework of the law. Affects legal activities and the social sphere. However, as many experts note, at present its importance in the field of public life is underestimated. Meanwhile, legally significant actions, such as assigning benefits, recognizing the subject as unemployed, resolving a labor dispute, etc., have a significant impact on citizens' lives. In this regard, in the social sphere, as in any other, the representatives of various bodies should rely on the law when exercising their powers. Recently, the question has also been raised about increasing the legal literacy of the population. This is due to the fact that citizens very often enter into various relations regulated by the norms of legislation. In fact, they also carry out legal activities. Therefore, it is important that the subjects are guided in the existing norms, can ensure the protection of their interests in any instance.