Professional Ethics and Professional Accounting System

Unit 1 — Meaning and scope of this paper; the legal profession and its duties, responsibilities towards court and client, bar and bench relations its necessity, nature and scope, the equipments of lawyers, conduct in court; privileges of lawyers, with light of Advocate Act 1961. The law of Contempt; Practice in High Court & Supreme Court & Bar.

• The Bar Council of India and the State Bar Council — Constitution, Powers and Functions
• Privileges of a lawyer — Salient features of the Advocates Act, 1961
• Right to Practice
• Professional Ethics — Power of Bar Council of India, Meaning and Standards of professional conduct and etiquette
• Duties
• 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

Unit 2 — Advocates & Judges; Duty to the court, duty to the opponent, duty to the client, duty to the self, duty to the public and the state also.

• Duties
• Duty to Render Legal Aid
• Bar Bench relations — Role of the Bar to Strengthen Bar-Bench Relations

Unit Practical — Practical (Viva-Voce) – 30 marks

Submission of record – 15 marks; Viva voce – 15 marks. Record shall content 10 case studies and five judgments of High Court & Supreme Court.

• Selected opinions of the Disciplinary Committee of Bar Councils and Major Judgments of the Supreme Court on the subject