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Radhakrishna, Gita (2020) Human Values in Legal Professionals’ Ethics Education. In: Legal Education and Legal Traditions: Selected Essays (SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace). Human Values in Legal Professionals’ Ethics Education, 34 . Springer, Springer, pp. 27-38. ISBN 978-3-030-50903-3

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Abstract

Education has been variously defined in dictionaries as the act or process of educating or being educated in a certain aspect of knowledge or skill through a specific programme of instruction on the one hand and on the other as an instructive or enlightening experience. The Sai Spiritual Education defines ‘education’ as ‘opening wide the doors of the mind, cleansing the inner tool of consciousness, the senses, ego and reason’. Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the founder of the Education in Human Values program says that education is for cultivating both the mind and the heart. It is to raise children with a lively conscience so that they can discern Truth from untruth, Eternal from transient, right from wrong, and so guide their lives grounded in peace, love, joy and harmony. The program is founded on the five core human values of truth, right conduct, love, peace and non-violence. The UNESCO Report on Education for the Twenty-first Century, states that ‘humankind sees in education an indispensable asset in its attempt to attain the ideals of peace, freedom and social justice’. The Commission is of the view that while education is a continuous process of improving knowledge and skills, it is also a means of bringing about personal development and fostering peace, understanding and harmony among individuals and nations. Legal Professional ethics is a compulsory course for qualifying law undergraduates. This paper examines the correlation between these core human values and legal professional ethics to determine whether this would lead to better ethics in the legal profession and awareness of their ethical responsibilities to society. These cover a spectrum of duties from the duty of a counsel to the court, to the client, to opposing counsel, the special duties of criminal lawyers and duty of counsel to society in general. The very fact that legal professional ethics has to be included in the syllabus for a law degree indicates the recognition of a dire erosion in professional values in society today. Learning and understanding professional ethics makes a positive contribution to enabling students understand their role as lawyers and become constructive citizens.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	legal ethics-Professional ethics
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
Divisions:	Faculty of Law (FOL)
Depositing User:	Ms Suzilawati Abu Samah
Date Deposited:	07 Oct 2021 04:40
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2021 04:40
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/8213

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