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Concepts and principles of

professional ethics

Nisha Kusum Paudel


5th Year
Roll.No:54
Professional means connected with job that
needs special training or skills, especially one
that need high level of education.

Ethics is knowing the difference between you


have a right to do and what is right to do.
-Potter Stewart
Ethics:
a. Moral principle that control or influence a
person’s behavior,
b. System of moral principles or rules of behavior,
c. Branch of philosophy that deals with moral
principles.
d. the principles of right and wrong that are
accepted by an individual or a social group.
e. a system of principles governing morality and
acceptable conduct.
• Professional ethics encompass the personal,
organizational and corporate standards of
behavior expected of professionals.
• Professionals, and those working in
acknowledged professions, exercise specialist
knowledge and skill. How the use of this
knowledge should be governed when providing
a service to the public can be considered a
moral issue and is termed professional ethics.
• Professionals are capable of making
judgments, applying their skills and reaching
informed decisions in situations that the
general public cannot, because they have not
received the relevant training.
• One of the earliest examples of professional
ethics is the Hippocratic oath to which medical
doctors still adhere to this day.
Professional ethics:

a. It is the ethical norms, values and principles that


guide a profession and the ethics of decisions
made within the profession.
b. It is defined as the personal and corporate rules
that govern behavior within the context of the
particular profession.
c. It is codes exists in most professions to guide
interactions between specialists with advance
knowledge, e.g. doctors, lawyers, engineers.. And
the general public.
Legal profession is good if practiced in the spirit of
it, it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true
spirit of mischief-making and money making.
-Danial Webster
Professional ethics may be defined as the code of
conduct written or unwritten for regulating the
behaviors of the practicing lawyer towards
himself, his client, his adversary in law towards
the court.
The Model Rules address many topics under
ethics, including the
-client-lawyer relationship,
-duties of a lawyer as advocate in adversary
proceedings,
-dealings with persons other than clients, law
firms and associations, public service,
advertising,
-maintaining the integrity of the profession.
• Respect of client confidences, candor toward
the tribunal, truthfulness in statements to
others, and professional independence are
some of the defining features of legal ethics.
Principles:
• Principles of applicability
• Principle of disciplinary power
• Principle of honesty
• Principle of loyalty
• Principle of proper care
• Principle of secrecy and confidence
• Principle of independent professional
judgment
• Principle of representation
• Principle of proper information
• Principle of proper relationship
• Principle of responsibility to state
• Principle of well behavior
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