AN ethics and etiquette workshop intended to guide and empower the new practitioners before they enter their profession was held earlier this week.
The two-day workshop organised by the Judicial department was held at the Holiday Inn in Suva, conducted by Fiji’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan.
According to a Government statement, these compulsory workshops were held twice a year and intended to guide and empower new practitioners before they entered their profession.
It enables them to understand the dynamics of ethical standards of lawyers, the Legal Practitioners Act and cases already heard by the Independent legal Commission, the role of lawyers in providing access to justice, the rule of law and the legal profession, and relationships with both Bar and Bench.
The Chief Registrar issues practicing certificates for all legal practitioners each year under the Legal Practitioners Act.
Each new practitioner who has either already been admitted to practice, or is about to be admitted, and who applies for a practicing certificate, is required to attend the two days legal ethics and etiquette workshop organised through the Legal Practitioners’ Unit, before the practicing certificates are issued.
These legal ethics workshops have been held since 2010 and it is hailed as being successful for professional development of the legal practitioners in Fiji.
Ambassador Khan will also be conducting a Judicial Training later next week.
