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Course Title: Professional Ethics Course Code: LAW 512 Credit Units: 4 Level: UG Course Objectives
Course Title: Professional Ethics Course Code: LAW 512 Credit Units: 4 Level: UG Course Objectives
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Course Title: Professional Ethics
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Course Code: LAW 512
Credit Units: 4
Level: UG
Course Objectives:
The Course has been designed to acquaint the student of Law about the Professional Ethics and Professional etiquettes that are essentially significant for an
advocate to observe while at the Bar. Accountability and transparency are imperative to the profession. Besides, the conducive and cordial Bar- Bench relations
can send a good message concerning the richness of the Legal profession.
Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage (%)
Module I: History of the Legal Profession in India 25
Historical introduction to legal profession in India – Barristers, Vakils, High Court Pleaders, Advocates, etc. The All
India Bar Committee, 1951 and the passing of Indian Advocates Act, 1961. The Advocates Act 1961: Definitions
Section 2, Constitution and function of State Bar Councils, Bar Council of India, Terms of Office, various sub-
committees including Disciplinary Committee and the qualification for their membership. Power to make rules
Sections 3 to 15 – Chapter –II.
Recall and apply the professional ethics and ethical standards of the legal profession.
Demonstrate understanding of professional ethics and ethical standards of the legal profession.
Analyze and apply the professional ethics and ethical standard of the legal profession.
Appraise accountability and transparency which are imperative to the profession.
Develop insights about the professional parameters.
Pedagogy for Course Delivery: The class will be taught with the help of latest & landmark Judgments of the Apex Court & must be taught by a person who
has practiced as an advocate or has been an Advocate as prescribed Bar Council of India Rules & Inspection Manual,2010.
Client Counselling
Mock Trial
Moot Court
Project work on working of BCI and State Bar Council.
List of Experiments:
100% NA 60%
Theory Assessment (L&T):
Components (Drop Class Test Project Viva PSDA Report Evaluation and Attendance Total
down) Submission Presentation End Term
Linked to PSDA 1,2,3 &4 Examination
(60%)
Weightage (%)
Mapping Continuous Evaluation components/PSDA with CLOs
Class Test
Project
Viva
PSDA (Report)
PSDA (Presentation)
Text Reading:
P Ramanatha Aiyer, Legal and Professional Ethics: Legal Ethics, Duties and Privileges of a Lawyer, Lexis Nexis, 2003
The Advocates Act, 1960
Kailash Rai, Legal Ethics, CLP, 2007 (7th Edn)
Ramachandran Raju & Gaurav Agarwal, B.R. Agarwala's Supreme Court Practice and Procedure, Eastern Book Company, 2002
References:
1. Raju Ramachandran, Professional Ethics: Changing Profession and Changing Ethics (LexisNexis,Butterworths).
2. Dr. P. B. Mukharji, Professional Ethics of The Advocate (University of Burdwan)
3. P. Ramanatha Aiyer, Legal & Professional Ethics – Legal Ethics, Duties & Privileges of a Lawyer(Wadhwa Publications, Nagpur).
4. Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, Law, Lawyers and Justice(b. R. Publishing Corpn, Delhi).
5. Stephen Gillers, Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law & Ethics (Little, Brown & Com Boston Toronto, London).
6. Ross Grauston (ed.), Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility (Clarendon Press, Oxford).
7. Gary Bellow & Bea Moultan, The Lawyering Process: Ethics and Professional Responsibility, (The Foundation Press, Inc.).
8. D.V. Subba Rao, Sanjiva Row’s The Advocates Act, 1961(LexisNexis, Butterworths).
9. Nicolson and Webb, Professional Legal Ethics (OUP).