A lawyer has the duty to defend their client within the parameters of professional ethics, without being subject to attacks and linked to their client simply because they are doing their job, the Chamber of Advocates said in a statement.

The Chamber said that it is a matter of maturity to understand that there will always be some confrontation and disagreement between lawyers who are simply there to make their clients' cases.

However, this should never result in a situation where the lawyer is being personally ridiculed or intimidated for doing their job, it said.

The Chamber added that this also applies to the State Advocate who is bound by the same ethical and procedural duties as any other attorney.

The State Advocate should not be subject to personal attacks, simply because they are carrying out their duty to defend their client - the state, the Chamber said.

"It is evident that when a lawyer, including the State Advocate, as a professional makes their arguments in court, it does not mean that those are their own personal arguments, but they are the arguments of their client."

The Chamber is appealing to the public to be more mature with their comments when it concerns lawyers who are simply carrying out their duty.

Robert Aquilina's statement

In reaction to this statement, President of NGO Repubblika Robert Aquilina took to his Facebook page to write that State Advocate Chris Soler "cannot take criticism. He is allergic to it."

Aquilina alleged that because he criticised him in his new book "Pilatus: A Laundromat Bank in Europe," and because on Thursday morning he posted that he is acting like the State Advocate of North Korea, Soler went "crying" to the Chamber asking it to release a statement defending him.

Aquilina said that he has always known Soler to "carry himself with respect and elegance."

"Dear Dr Soler, it is not too late to be the Dr Soler I know again. Do not let them use you to obstruct the course of justice. Look at what happened in the past to people who were in the shoes you are wearing now and who did not behave well. Do the opposite of what they did," Aquilina said.