Professional Ethics and Professional Accounting System

Unit I

Teaching materials: Mr. Krishnamurthy Iyer's book on "Advocacy" · The Contempt Law and Practice · The Bar Council Code of Ethics · 50 selected opinions of the Disciplinary Committee of Bar Council and 10 major judgements of the Supreme Court on the subject · Other reading materials as may be prescribed by the University

• Seven Lamps of Advocacy: Honesty, Courage, Industry, Wit, Eloquence, Judgment and Fellowship
• Professional Ethics — Power of Bar Council of India, Meaning and Standards of professional conduct and etiquette
• Duties
• Professional Misconduct
• Punishment for misconduct
• Remedies against the order of punishment
• Review by the State Bar Council of its own order 3.5 Disciplinary Committee of the State
• Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council of India — Organisation and powers and procedure
• Transfer of proceedings from the State Bar Council to the Bar Council of India
• Selected opinions of the Disciplinary Committee of Bar Councils and Major Judgments of the Supreme Court on the subject
• The Contempt Law and Practice — Articles 129 and 215 of the Constitution of India, Contempt of Courts Act, 1971
• Bar Bench relations — Role of the Bar to Strengthen Bar-Bench Relations
• Accountancy for Lawyers