3 Nepal Bar Council

1. The founding and reforms: the licensing function's evolution — from the courts' own certification to the statutory professional council (the 2050 Act's consolidation); the successive reforms (the entrance-examination's introduction; the code's modernization — the 2079 Rules below; the disciplinary machinery's strengthening);2. Nepal Bar Council Act, 2050 (1993): the Council as the statutory licensing-and-regulatory body: the composition (the Attorney General's chairing tradition; the SC- nominees, the NBA's elected representation, the law-faculty presence — the bench-bar- academy mix); the functions: the advocates' enrolment (the examinations-and-criteria: the law-degree-and-practical-training requirement); the licensing-and-renewal; the discipline (the complaints-and-tribunal: the suspension-and-cancellation powers); the legal education'sinterface (the recognition-and-examination role); the roll-and-register of advocates;3. Rules of Professional Code of Conduct of Legal Practitioners, 2079 BS (2023): the current ethics code — the duties' architecture: to the court (the candor, the dignity, no- misleading); to the client (the competence, the loyalty, the confidentiality, the conflicts-of- interest's avoidance, the fees' fairness); to the opposite party (the fairness, no-abuse); tothe society (the probity, the access-and-aid duty); the specific disciplines (the advertising's limits, the communication-with-represented-parties' bar, the contingent-fees' discipline); the violation's consequences (the Council's disciplinary ladder: the warning-to-cancellation).