Law schools should drive the principles of ethical considerations into its students, suggested R. Venkata Rao, Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
He was delivering the Kondoor memorial lecture, organised by the Kondoor Law Foundation, on ‘Emerging trends in legal profession: Role of ethics’ here on Thursday.
Law schools should inculcate the feeling in students that touching lives is important than acquiring any other things in life. Though the standard of education has gone up in the country, the standard of values has gone down. There is the need for redefining the ethical considerations of litigation advocacy, he said.
Manjula Chellur, Chief Justice of the High Court of Kerala, presented the Kondoor award for the most promising young lawyer of the year 2012 to R. Leela, an advocate of the High Court of Kerala. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. two lakh, a gold medal and citation.
Cyriac Joseph, former judge of the Supreme Court of India, inaugurated the meeting.
C.N. Ramachandran Nair, former judge of the High Court of Kerala, presided over the function.
