Veteran lawyer and MP Karpal Singh disagrees with Bar Council president Ragunath Kesavan that the council can monitor only the professional conduct and practice of lawyers and has no authority to look into their personal lives.
“I am somewhat taken aback by the statement of the Bar Council president,” Karpal said in a press statement today.
“Section 94 of the Legal Profession Act 1976 empowers the Disciplinary Board to take action against any advocate and solicitor for misconduct, including striking off the rolls," he said.
Karpal said Section 94(3) defines misconduct as conduct by a lawyer "in a professional capacity or otherwise" which amounts to grave impropriety. It includes being "guilty of any conduct which is unbefitting of an advocate and solicitor or which brings or is calculated to bring the legal profession into disrepute".
"This subsection brings, within its striking range, misconduct in private life."
Full article in the Sun Online by Tan Yi Liang can be read HERE.
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