Canons of Professional Conduct and Etiquette of Advocate

Duties of an Advocates in Islamic society enlisted.

Sui Southern Gas Company is public limited and incorporated under the Companies Act, 1913, and is quoted on Stock Exchanges

Although the majority shares in the Company are held by the President of Pakistan, yet the same does not make the Company a department of Government of Pakistan

Insertion of S.2-A in Service Tribunals Act, 1973, does not in any way make employees of the Company civil servants or public functionaries to make them amenable to the Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court

Constitutional petition was not maintainable against the employees of Sui Southern Gas Company in circumstances.

Advocate is an officer of Court and is concerned in the proper administration of justice and owes an overriding duty to the Court, to the standards of his profession and to the public, to ensure that it is achieved

Where Advocate has not prepared his brief properly and has not placed the relevant law before the Court, such counsel has failed in his duty by not maintaining the standards expected of an Advocate

Where counsel does not come to the Court ready with the facts and law on the legal propositions, such lapse on his part would show disrespect to the standards of the profession, duty to the Court in the administration of justice and negligence of his duty to client

Such counsel has not only committed breach of the Injunctions of Islam but has also committed breach of promise to his client.

When a counsel signs, files or submits to the Court any application it is assumed that the application is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay, that the legal contentions therein are warranted by existing law and practice

Where a counsel succumbs to temptation of money offered by a client and .takes up a brief without ascertaining true facts and researching the law such counsel would be deemed to be a party to vexatious claim and his duty to the Court would be subordinated to his client.

Advocate is an officer of Court, and is concerned in the proper administration of justice and owes an overriding duty to the Court, to the standards of his profession and to the public, to ensure that it is achieved

Where Advocate has not prepared his brief properly and has not placed the relevant law before the Court, such counsel has failed in his duty by not maintaining the standards expected of an Advocate

Where counsel does not come to the Court ready with the facts and law on the legal propositions, such lapse on his part would show disrespect to the standards of the profession, duty to the Court in the administration of justice and negligence of his duty to client

Such counsel has not only committed breach of the Injunctions of Islam but has also committed breach of promise to his client.