Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2023

1. A lawyer shall uphold and observe the rule of law, promote, and foster the course of justice, maintain a high standard of professional conduct, and shall not engage in any conduct which is unbecoming of a legal practitioner.

2. A lawyer shall not knowingly do any act or make any omission or engage in any conduct designed to lead to the admission into the legal profession of a person who is unsuitable for admission by reason of his moral character, or insufficient qualification or for any other reason.

3.-(1) A lawyer shall not-

(a) aid a non-lawyer in the unauthorized practice of the law;

(b) permit his professional services or his name to be used in aid of, or to make possible, the unauthorized practice of law by any person not qualified to practice or disqualified from practice; or

(c) share legal fees with a non-lawyer except as provided in rule 53.

(2) A lawyer shall not, in return for a fee, write or sign his name or permit his name to be written or signed on a document prepared by a non-lawyer as if prepared by him.

4. A lawyer shall not permit his professional services to be controlled or exploited by any lay agency, personal or corporate, which intervenes between him and the client, provided that charitable societies or other institutions rendering aid to the indigent are not deemed to be intermediaries.