Practical Training – I: Professional Ethics and Professional Accounting System
Professional legal education cannot be sans practical aspects. This course is as prescribed by the Bar Council of India(BCI) as a compulsory clinical course. The objective of this course is to equip the students with the knowledge about the Bar, enrolment into the Bar, different terminology used to refer to practitioners of law, Bar Councils under the Advocates Act, qualities of a good lawyer, Right to practice and privileges, The course is designed to imbibe in students the values forming the basis of the profession so that they can live up to those standards in their professional life and hence includes BCI laid down professional ethics and the disciplinary powers of Bar Council over the advocates for misconduct in the teaching- learning of this co
University of Mumbai · B.L.S. Semester 5 · 4 modules · 20 topics · 20 written.
Module 1 — Module 1
- 1.1 Enrolment of Lawyers — Qualifications prescribed u/s 24 of the Advocates Act 1961and procedure
- 1.2 Common Terminology: Solicitor, Advocate, Lawyer, Senior Counsel, Junior Counsel, Legal Practitioners, Barrister, AOR, Amicus Curie
- 1.3 Seven Lamps of Advocacy: Honesty, Courage, Industry, Wit, Eloquence, Judgment and Fellowship
- 1.4 The Bar Council of India and the State Bar Council — Constitution, Powers and Functions
- 1.5 Privileges of a lawyer — Salient features of the Advocates Act, 1961
- 1.6 Right to Practice
- 1.7 Designation as Senior Counsel: Indira Jaising v/s SC of India (SC 2017)
Module 2 — Module 2
Module 3 — Module 3
- 3.1 Professional Misconduct
- 3.2 Punishment for misconduct
- 3.3 Remedies against the order of punishment
- 3.4 Review by the State Bar Council of its own order 3.5 Disciplinary Committee of the State
- 3.5 Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council of India — Organisation and powers and procedure
- 3.6 Transfer of proceedings from the State Bar Council to the Bar Council of India
- 3.7 Selected opinions of the Disciplinary Committee of Bar Councils and Major Judgments of the Supreme Court on the subject