Legal ethics plays an important role in regulating the legal practice and the legal profession in every country. Lawyers are an integral part of the justice delivery system, entrusted with upholding the law and justice, and promoting the rule of law. This book focuses on the principles and contours of legal ethics, examines the sources of legal ethics, and sheds light on the role of ethics in adversarial legal system. It also explores the importance of teaching legal ethics, examines the code of conduct for lawyers in Bangladesh, analyzes the cross-cutting issues relating to legal ethics, surveys decisions of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on the lawyers’ misconduct, and finally considers the issues of judicial ethics in Bangladesh.
