Disciplinary proceedings relating to advocates are governed by the Advocates Act and, to the extent not provided for under this law, by adequately applied provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code. The text contains the analysis of changes that were made in the Advocates Act by the amendments of June 26, 2014 and November 7, 2014, and changes of the Criminal Procedure Code stipulated by the Act of 27 September 2013 in context of their impact on disciplinary proceedings against advocates and advocate trainees in the institutional, substantive and procedural field. The most important issues discussed in the text include: −  Granting disciplinary prosecutors the position of bar bodies and providing them with autonomy from executive bodies (advocates’ councils), −  Defining tasks of disciplinary prosecutors by a legal act, −  Applying changes to disciplinary penalties, limitation and removal of references to punishment, −  Changes in disciplinary procedure aimed at improving and speeding up proceedings, −  A new model of appeal proceedings concerning decisions of temporary suspension in professional activities, − A new regulation on legal action costs, −  The possibility of compulsory enforcement of penalties and execution of costs of proceedings, −  Adequate application of the Criminal Code provisions regulating the principles of criminal responsibility, forms of committing a disciplinary offense and exclusion of criminal responsibility, −  Changes in enforcement proceedings, − Intertemporal provisions.