A/HRC/44/47/Add.1 of their choice. The State should also envisage minimum safeguards to ensure that lawyers are able to perform all of their professional functions freely and without any intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference. Those safeguards should include access to adequate facilities in prisons and detention centres to communicate with their clients without interception and in full confidentiality; and prompt access to the information, files and documents held by State authorities that are necessary to provide effective legal assistance to their clients. Severe penalties should be imposed on law enforcement officials and prosecutors who prevent or limit the right of lawyers to assist their clients. Chamber of Lawyers 121. The Law on Lawyers should be amended to eliminate the widespread competences attributed to the Ministry of Justice in relation to the organization and functioning of the legal profession, which undermine the independence of the Chamber of Lawyers and, consequently, the free and independent exercise of the legal profession. 122. The legal profession is best placed to determine admission requirements and procedures, and should thus be responsible, alone or in collaboration with the Government, for administering examinations and granting professional certificates. 30 The responsibility for disciplinary proceedings against lawyers should be vested in an impartial disciplinary committee established by the legal profession, an independent statutory authority or a court.31 E. Accessibility of courts and tribunals 123. Uzbekistan should adopt all appropriate measures to ensure that all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction have access to court buildings and court proceedings. This entails, in particular, the elimination of architectural and language barriers that currently prevent or limit the right of persons with disabilities to have access to justice on an equal basis with others. 124. Bearing in mind article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Special Rapporteur calls on the donor community to continue supporting Uzbekistan in its efforts aimed at ensuring effective access to justice for persons with disabilities. These measures should be developed and implemented in close cooperation with civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities. 30 31 20 A/73/365, para. 56, and A/64/181, para. 34. A/73/365, paras. 116–117.