Landmark case · Professional Ethics and Professional Accounting System · Semester 5

Himalayan Cooperative Group Housing Society v. Balwan Singh

(2015) 7 SCC 373 · Supreme Court of India

Unauthorised compromise or misapplication of the client's cause is as much an accounting and authority failure as an ethical one.

From topic

Books of account, client money and Bar Council finances — Unit V, Professional Ethics and Professional Accounting System.

Related sections:

Advocates Act, 1961, 15(2)(l) — Rules as to the funds of the Bar Council
Advocates Act, 1961, 17 — State roll and maintenance of records
Bar Council of India Rules, Part VI, Ch. II — Duty not to appropriate client money; accounts of clients