Legal and professional ethics : Legal ethics, duties and privileges of a lawyer
Aiyar P Ramanatha
Legal and professional ethics : Legal ethics, duties and privileges of a lawyer
- 3rd
- Nagpur Wadhwa and Co. 2003
- 568p xxxvi
Contents: General contents: Title page iii; Preface to the third edition vii; Preface to the second edition viii; Forward to the second edition ix; Preface to the first edition xi; Foreword to the first edition xv; Arrangement of subjects xix - xxvii; Table of cases xxix - xxxvi; Subject index 511; Chapter: 1. Introductory 1; 2. Profession of law 33; 3. Necessity for a code of legal ethics 59; 4. A code of legal ethics 69; 5. Bar council of India rules 103; 6. Professional conduct and advocacy 111; 7. Sanction for an ethical code 159; 8. Lawyers' devotion to duty 161; 9. Character and carriage of conviction 165; 10. Discharge of duty under difficult circumstances 171; 11. Law and morality 177; 12. Following the dictates of conscence (in the practice of law) 181; 13. Search for truth is the ideal of the lawyer 187; 14. Lawyers and legislation 199; 15. Loyalty to the law and limitations of rule 204; 16. Duty of counselling taking instruction from the clients 217; 17. Duty of councils in advising on litigation 225; 18. Duty of council in promoting compromise 233; 19. Duty of council in accepting engagements 237; 20. Duty of commercial when engaged for the precaution for in defence of the accused 247; 21. Duty of the advocate in defence of the guilty (can the lawyer defend a person known to be guilty?) 249; 22. Duty of council in acting for a poor person 267; 23. Duty of counsel in matter of legal technicalities (litigation about trifles) 271; 24. Duty of counsel to client 279; 25. Duty of counsel to the opponent 301; 26. Duty of advocate to opposing counsel 303; 27. Duty of council to his colleagues 315; 28. Duty of council to himself 319; 29. Duty to court 327; 30. The junior bar 349; 31. Counsel giving his own opinion about the merits of the case 377; 32. Duty of advocate to the state and the public 383; 33. Duties of judges 391; 34. Duty of council to avoid law's delay 419; 35. Legal fees 435; 36. Contempt of court 449; 37. Cases of professional misconduct 471; 38. The Unprotected lawyer 501.