BennyRants

Is the legal practitioner's loyalty first to the COURT? Or his CLIENT?  To state the obvious, Rules 14 to 25 of the Rules of Professional conduct speaks on the general and specific duties that a legal practitioner owe to his client while Rules 30 to 38 devotes to a lawyer’s duty to the court. The former provides that lawyers must dedicate to the cause of his client and the later provides lawyers being officers of the court. It arouses a twist as to whom the lawyers first loyalty must be to, Is it to the court, alternatively, his client? In reality, a lawyer who has his overriding interest as the court, his client is most likely to suffer, seeing that even though he wants justice to prevail, he also wants that his client is happy. He is made a compulsory officer of the court and in much so, was enrolled to the bar to serve the court but does this effect much on his client? Yes! A client does not want a lawyer who goes to court and instead of being by him, is saying yes to...

               Ethically speaking, living beings are creations of God, which cannot be owned by human beings through patents. God is the only owner of all living things on this planet. Living beings are vested with an inherent dignity and integrity which is protected and guaranteed. Human beings cannot also play with the wisdom of God by manipulating living beings since this manipulation hits on human integrity and dignity. Genetic manipulation of organisms and its protection by patent system has always raised an issue and cry on moral and ethical issues. WHAT IS ETHICS AND MORALITY? The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character or disposition. Our concepts of ethics have been derived from religions, philosophies and cultures. They infuse debates on topics like abortion, human rights and professional conduct. Ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and...