Karnataka - Belgaum   

Legal professionals told to focus on new areas

Belgaum: S.R. Nayak, Chairperson of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission, said on Saturday that the new millennium had thrown up many new challenges to legal professionals.

Speaking after inaugurating a three-day “National moot court competition on human rights” here, he said litigations emerged in new areas such as intellectual property, environment, technology transfers, dispute resolutions, redressal forums, arbitration, human rights, cyber law, etc. Legal professionals had to focus on these areas, he added.

Law students from different parts of the country, including Goa, Maharahtra and Haryana, are participating in the competitions.

Observing that lawyers were regarded as sentinels of democracy, he said a lawyer would be only failing his/her country if he or she failed to take active part in making laws and formulation of public opinion, and thus, play the role of a catalyst in that direction.

He said with the fast changing global scenario having direct and indirect impact on cross sections of society, the responsibilities of a lawyer had increased. Since the Bench and the Bar were two wheels of the “divine chariot of justice”, non-cooperation on the part of anyone would only make the system limp and hamper the movement. While studying law, learning other subjects, including history, philosophy, literature, commerce and economics, mathematics, science and technology and social sciences, would be an advantage to students.

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