Seven Lamps of Advocacy: Honesty, Courage, Industry, Wit, Eloquence, Judgment and Fellowship

Your cousin is the best talker in the family. He wins every argument at the dinner table, so he says he will be a great advocate. But the senior who will one day decide whether to brief him cares about different things: does he read the file at night, does he tell the court the truth when it hurts his client, does he treat the opposing lawyer like a colleague? The Seven Lamps are a checklist of what a good advocate is actually made of.

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The Seven Lamps of Advocacy — honesty, courage, industry, wit, eloquence, judgment and fellowship — are the classic statement of the qualities of a good advocate; they are ideals, not sections of a statute, but each one is backed by a duty the Advocates Act and the Bar Council of India’s rules enforce.

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