PROFESSIONAL ETHICS ( AIMS AND OBJECTS)

Professional Ethics means a code of conduct which regulates the behaviour and
conduct of a practicing lawyer towards himself, his clients, opposite parties and
his counsel and towards the court. The main object of Professional Ethics of
advocacy is to maintain the dignity of Legal Profession. The profession of law
means not only high depth of knowledge of law and other social sciences but
also a sense of social responsibilities which calls for high and noble conduct.

A code of ethics is one method which is the plain and simple duty of the
lawyers to use their influence in every legitimate way to help and to make the
Bar what it ought to be.

Legal Ethics may be taken to mean the body of rules and practice which
determine the professional conduct of the members of the bar, and its main object
has been well explained by the Chief Justice Marshall: “ The fundamental aim of
legal ethics is to maintain the honour and dignity of law profession to secure a
spirit of friendly cooperation between bench and the bar in the promotion of
highest standard of justice. To establish honourable and fair dealings of the
council with his client opponent and witnesses to establish a spirit of brother
hood in the bar itself to secure that lawyers discharge their responsibility to the
community generally.