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Aiyar, P. Ramanatha

Legal and professional ethics : legal ethics, duties and privileges of a lawyer / P. Ramanatha Aiyar - 3rd ed. - Nagpur : Wadhwa and Company, 2003. - xxxviii, 568 p. ; 24 cm.

1. Introductory;
2. Profession of law;
3. Necessity for a code of legal ethics;
4. A code of legal ethics;
5. Bar council of India rules;
6. Professional conduct and advocacy;
7. Sanction for an ethical code;
8. Lawyers' devotion to duty;
9. Character and carriage of conviction;
10. Discharge of duty under difficult circumstances;
11. Law and morality;
12. Following the dictates of conscence (in the practice of law);
13. Search for truth is the ideal of the lawyer;
14. Lawyers and legislation;
15. Loyalty to the law and limitations of rule;
16. Duty of counselling taking instruction from the clients;
17. Duty of councils in advising on litigation;
18. Duty of council in promoting compromise;
19. Duty of council in accepting engagements;
20. Duty of commercial when engaged for the precaution for in defence of the accused;
21. Duty of the advocate in defence of the guilty (can the lawyer defend a person known to be guilty?)….

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Legal profession -- Ethics
Legal professionalism

Dewey Class. No.: 340.092 AIY