The Armenian National Assembly's Lusavor Hayastan (Bright Armenia) faction wants to criminalize the slandering and insultung  of lawyers while they are engaged in their professional duties and has introduced a bill to amend the Criminal Code.

Under current law, any interference with the activities of a prosecutor or investigator to impede the comprehensive, full and impartial investigation of a case is punishable by a fine in the amount of 200 to 300 minimal salaries, or by imprisonment from one to three years.

Bright Armenia wants a similar law for cases of obstruction of a lawyer's professional activity.

Bill supporters argue that lawyers recently been the targets of slander, and that civil-legal liability alone is not an effective means of defending a lawyer's dignity and business reputation.

They say that criminal liability should exist as a preventive measure.