What is meant by professional misconduct?
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What is meant by professional misconduct?
Professional misconduct is the behaviour outside the bounds of what is considered acceptable or worthy of its membership by the governing body of a profession. Professional misconduct refers to disgraceful or dishonourable conduct not befitting an advocat.
How do you control professional misconduct?
Professional Misconduct Under The Advocates Act, 1961
- Existence of a body of specialized knowledge or techniques.
- Formalized method of acquiring training and experience.
- Establishment of a representative organization with professionalism as its goal.
- Formation of ethical codes for the guidance of conduct.
What is ethical misconduct?
Ethical misconduct means unacceptable behavior or conduct engaged in by a licensed school employee and includes inappropriate touching, sexual harassment, discrimination, and behavior intended to induce a child into engaging in illegal, immoral or other prohibited behavior.
What is a sanction on a person?
Sanctions, in law and legal definition, are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or with rules and regulations. Criminal sanctions can take the form of serious punishment, such as corporal or capital punishment, incarceration, or severe fines.
What are the various types of legal remedies?
There are six different types of damages: compensatory, incidental, consequential, nominal, liquidated, and (sometimes) punitive.
- Compensatory Damages.
- Incidental Damages.
- Consequential Damages.
- Nominal Damages.
- Liquidated Damages.
- Punitive Damages.
What can you sue a person for?
The law must support your contention that you were harmed by the illegal actions of another.
- Bad Debt. A type of contract case.
- Breach of Contract.
- Breach of Warranty.
- Failure to Return a Security Deposit.
- Libel or Slander (Defamation).
- Nuisance.
- Personal Injury.
- Product Liability.
