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The Bar Council of India will notify by this year-end new ethical guidelines for lawyers based on international principles and which are applicable to Indian conditions, Solicitor-General and chairman, Bar Council of India, Gopal Subramanium said here on Sunday.
Talking to journalists on the sidelines of 17{+t}{+h} Commonwealth Law Conference here, Mr. Subramanium said the draft had already been published and would be circulated among various stakeholders. The new guidelines were simple, and drawn mostly from South African principles.
The BCI decided to update and make the guidelines more realistic as they were not revisited since they were framed in 1962-63.
In his speech on ‘Meeting the challenges of emerging economies in keeping the rule of law,' Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said the rule of law was central to the Commonwealth values. Respect for and implementation of the rule of law had long been enshrined as a core value of the Commonwealth, and most recently in the Affirmation of Commonwealth Values and Principles, which was agreed by heads of government at their last summit in Trinidad and Tobago, 2009.
He said the rule of law was not only prescriptive, rather it was a way of underwriting and promoting aspiration, the strength and democratic coherence of our societies and our shared task of economic and social development. Mr. Sharma said that from the Commonwealth perspective, democracy and development were mutually reinforcing.
Eminent jurist from Bangladesh Kamal Hossain said the rule of law was indispensable to achieve sustainable human development.
Talking to journalists on the sidelines of 17{+t}{+h} Commonwealth Law Conference here, Mr. Subramanium said the draft had already been published and would be circulated among various stakeholders. The new guidelines were simple, and drawn mostly from South African principles.
The BCI decided to update and make the guidelines more realistic as they were not revisited since they were framed in 1962-63.
In his speech on ‘Meeting the challenges of emerging economies in keeping the rule of law,' Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said the rule of law was central to the Commonwealth values. Respect for and implementation of the rule of law had long been enshrined as a core value of the Commonwealth, and most recently in the Affirmation of Commonwealth Values and Principles, which was agreed by heads of government at their last summit in Trinidad and Tobago, 2009.
He said the rule of law was not only prescriptive, rather it was a way of underwriting and promoting aspiration, the strength and democratic coherence of our societies and our shared task of economic and social development. Mr. Sharma said that from the Commonwealth perspective, democracy and development were mutually reinforcing.
Eminent jurist from Bangladesh Kamal Hossain said the rule of law was indispensable to achieve sustainable human development.