Jammu, Nov 19: J&K Judicial Academy under the patronage of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, organized a seminar for young advocates on “Role and responsibilities of advocates as officers of court in civil and criminal trials with special emphasis on Advocates Act” at Judicial Academy, Jammu.
The training programme was inaugurated by Justice Sanjeev Kumar, Judge, High Court of J&K and Ladakh in the presence of Vikram Sharma, Senior Advocate, High Court of J&K and Ladakh, while Kikar Singh Parihar, Former District & Session Judge was the resource person in the programme.
In the inaugural session, Vikram Sharma, in his keynote address said that the legal profession has been placed at the highest pedestal due to its nobility carrying attributes of fairness, honesty, etiquettes, mannerism supplemented by correct aptitude within its ambit. “A lawyer being a responsible citizen is under an obligation to set highest standards of professional conduct in his private and public life. Lawyers must know how to be assertive in the court and not to be aggressive,” he said.
In his inaugural address, Justice Sanjeev Kumar, Judge, High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh emphasized upon the important role of lawyers and described the profession as tough and challenging. “Everybody is the student of the law and nobody can claim as the master of law. A lawyer should be litigant friendly and work as the agent of clients,” he said, adding that the duty of a lawyer towards the court is to present the facts in a fair and dignified way.
He also specified that the lawyers should be able to draw a line between aggression and assertion in order to succeed in life, saying, “If a lawyer imbibes the ethics of professional standard, then sky is the limit.”
Shahzad Azeem, Director, J&K Judicial Academy said the legal profession is a noble calling to serve and ensure composite justice to various sectors of the society and adherence to norms of professional ethics and performance of duties with sincerity is imperative.
D C Raina, Ld Advocate General in the first technical session addressed the young advocates on the concept of ethics which he said is integral to the lawyers’ profession. Kikar Singh Parihar, Former District & Session Judge, who was the resource person in the technical sessions, delved into the concepts of role and responsibilities of advocates as officers of court and stressed that the communication and behavioural skills of the advocate would be the guiding factor during the entire trial.
Later, an interactive session was held during which the participants deliberated and discussed the various aspects of the subject topic and raised queries which were satisfactorily settled by the resource persons.
