Professional Ethics

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Last time I visited a solicitor who is from my village. We have been living in Kathmandu, capital city of Nepal, and we have good relation. I thought that he would help me in all aspects, so I went to him for help. At the first visit he shifted his duty to his colleague who has been together with him. I understood that he wanted to shift his duty to that man whom I hadn’t known at all. I have the concept that he had shifted that to another person for bargaining.

I got short time period so that I had left the document and returned back. Next day I followed him due to the time constrain and he admitted me differently. He had told me that I have been grumbling with him so it would be difficult to work. I also told him that it would be better not to work. I thought to change the solicitor but three days’ time was already spent out of seven days. So I couldn’t think about other possibility rather I had to make the work done.

I thought to change him and I didn’t talk anymore with him; rather I consulted others that the work what he had done could be shifted to others. Since I could easily change the solicitor, I thought to complete the work first being inferior to him. Though I wanted to test him once whether his attitude had been changed or not. I gave him one month’s chance to look at his attitude. I didn’t find any improvement and then I went to the next one.

In this matter, I want to discuss the professional ethics of that solicitor. He was a man from Chitwan who had reserved quality. He listened to me on the first day that helped to recognize his as a cold man. The man who facilitated me should have told something about me to him so he had also treated me somehow differently. I stayed adaptive at first evaluating his attitudes to me which was totally negative. From this time, I had formed negative attitude towards him. Or he might have thought that he could treat me the way he liked. I didn’t like his behavior at all as I had already been haunted from first visit.

I got the materials just before a day and they told me that I had to pay for typing and printing. I told him that I had computer and printer I could do that if they didn’t have computer man. The man intentionally told to his colleague, “He could type himself and it would be better to return back”. I thought that I could also treat him how he had treated me. So I didn’t speak anything to him rather took the paper paying money to the typist.

I evaluated that the man had no professional ethics at all. He had also shown some weaknesses once while talking that he had no experience regarding the issue. He said, “I did it some years before”. I also enquired him if he had no such experience in this case. He boastfully said that he had more than 35 years of experience. I also couldn’t praise his writing neither did I find amiable behavior from his. He had behaved so rudely that helped me to form even more negative attitude towards him. Then I didn’t have any chance to go there.

The professional ethics is that one should be able to convince his/her clients as far as possible. He had done nothing at all rather he told that he had no interest in payment. If so, why did he do such job? He told me that he had sons and daughters in USA or Australia also. I didn’t take his attitude positive to and thought to cut off the relation.