Section 37, The Legal Practitioners Act, 2000 THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS (C ODE OF C ONDUCT) R ULES , 2010

(1) A legal practitioner has a duty to uphold the interestof his client without regard to his own interests or to any consequences to himself or to any other person. (2) A legal practitioner has the same privilege as his client of asserting and defending the client’s rights by the statement of every fact and the use of every argument that is permitted by the principles and practice of the law.