Showing posts with label dying concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dying concept. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Professional Ethics in the Legal Profession:- A Dying Concept?

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Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

Introduction
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Open the newspaper on any regular day and you will see news such as doctor being caught in the business of revealing the sex of a foetus or a judge accused of taking a bribe or similar stories. Only a person of the respective profession can understand the shame the members of their profession feel when they read such news.

Professional ethics is basically the standard or code of behavior that a professional must follow. There is no clear definition of the word ‘professional’, but for the purposes of professional ethics it may be safe to assume that a "professional" means any person in an occupation which requires public licensing or