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Section 3: A legal practitioner–

Status not yet checkedThe Legal Practitioners Act, 2000 THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (C ODE OF C ONDUCT) R ULES , 2010, Sierra Leone

(a) is responsible for acts and omissions by his clerk or any employees when acting on his behalf; (b) who takes a pupil shall supervise his professional conduct during pupilage; STATUTORY INSTRUMENT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXII, No. 2 dated 13th January, 2011 Short title. practitioners to uphold standards. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE G OVERNMENT P RINTING D EPARTMENT , S IERRA LEONE . GAZETTE NO . 2 OF 13 TH JANUARY , 2011. Duties of legal practitioner. person had committed the offence charged, or to call any evidence, which he must know to be false having regard to the confession, such, for instance, as evidence in support of an alibi, which is intended to show that the accused could not have done or in fact had not done the act; that is to say, an advocate must not (whether by calling the accused or otherwise) set up an affirmative case inconsistent with the confession made to him.

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