Essay On Ethics In Law

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

INTRODUCTION

A lawyer is a complex creature just like his profession. What is that determines the professional conduct of a lawyer is his job, his knowledge, skills, that determine his ethical conduct and shape up his character or is it their character, moral values, thinking on a particular topic that determine their professional choices and their ethical conduct on it.

True we built no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no pictures. There is little of all that we do, which the eye of a man can see. But we smooth our difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes we take up other men’s burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

JOHN DAVIS [ ]

In this world disputes among individual is inevitable and the strength of the society does not lie in not have disputes but in being able to

Is the ethical nature on which the law is based still there in the profession anymore? Law as a profession has been commercialised and as said by Justice Burger “it is no disparagement to the practice of law as a profession to acknowledge that it has a business aspect to it [ ].”Law as a profession is being questioned by many at it sees to being seen as to where be it headed in the future. The profession of law is not something that has just come into existence but it is something that has existed since ages and has evolved over time, it has changed with the needs of the society and with the views of the people, so have the people practicing it. Lawyers are human beings and are influenced by the fancies of the