Etiquette and manners for law professionals; legal counselling
LUG-105 English and Legal Language, Unit III: Etiquette and manners for law professionals. · LLB · 60 min
How an advocate is expected to behave: in court (dress, forms of address, standing, the mobile phone), towards the client, the opponent and colleagues (the Bar Council of India's Standards of Professional Conduct and Etiquette in outline), in the office, on the telephone and by e-mail. Then two linked topics the papers have asked: the qualities of a good trainer or training manager, and legal counselling - its meaning, kinds (directive, non-directive, eclectic; client, witness and pre-litigation counselling) and importance - closing with the counsel and his kinds (senior advocate, advocate-on-record, government counsel, amicus curiae, public prosecutor).
Objectives
- Enumerate the etiquette that law professionals must follow in court, with clients, with opponents and in the office.
- Explain the source and sanction of professional etiquette: the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules.
- List the essential qualities of a training manager and relate them to legal training.
- Define counselling, describe its kinds and explain its importance in legal practice.
- Define the term counsel and distinguish its kinds.
Slides
- Why etiquette is law for the advocate
- Court etiquette: dress, address, standing, silence
- Duties to the court, the client, the opponent and colleagues (BCI Rules in outline)
- Manners in the office, on the telephone, by e-mail and in a client meeting
- The examination list: etiquette of law professionals (2019-20, Q.A14; 2022-23, Q.4b)
- Qualities of a training manager (2018-19, Q.B2)
- Legal counselling: meaning and kinds (2018-19, Q.C4)
- Importance of counselling, and the counselling process
- Counsel and its kinds (2018-19, Q.A4)
- How the examiner asks it
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