The code of professional ethics of notaries in the Russian Federation, as well as the disciplinary responsibility of notaries, need legislative rethinking
The article deals with the history of the introduction of disciplinary responsibility and the adoption of the Code of Professional Ethics of Notaries in the Russian Federation, critical remarks are made about its content and the order of adoption. The author concludes that in the absence of the norms regulating the disciplinary responsibility of notaries in the law, it can not be legitimate to consider the practice of bringing them to disciplinary liability for many years only on the basis of a corporate act, which was the Professional Code of Notaries of the Russian Federation.