THE PROFESSIONAL DUTIES OF LAWYER AND THE CONSEQUENT HEALTH CHALLENGES: THE NEED TO TRADE WITHIN THE HEALTH WATCH

Abstract

Profession is an occupation that can claim exclusive technical competence and also adheres to ethics of professional conduct. Elsewhere, a profession is being defined as a calling in which one professed to have acquired special knowledge used by either instructing, guiding or advising others or serving them in some art. Very often, occupational groups have referred to their occupations as professions as long as members are able to come together to discuss issues of common interest. Examples of professions are Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers, Accountants, Architects and Quantity Surveyors (emphasis mine). These are professions that have quality control measures and compulsory registration of their members. Lawyers as professionals have professional duties which they must perform within a professional guided conduct, ethics and which must give rise to justice. They have these duties to the society, their clients, courts, states, professions and fellow lawyers. But in discharging these responsibilities as mortal human beings, lawyers must watch the effects and consequences of subjecting themselves to hazards, dangers and of course, denial of their body system to normal and natural rest as required by nature. It is the result of achieving these duties expected of a lawyer as a professional vis à vis the denial of their natural body to relax and rest under normal health conditions that form the precis of this paper. We adopted doctrinal methodology relying on secondary sources of data gathering. We found that lawyers while performing their professional duties must relax their bodies and be guided under health watch to be able to discharge their responsibilities to a long time. Else, they breakdown and leave these duties to someone else who understands and keep these health implications. We recommended that lawyers must watch their system and health conditions always to live to discharge these professional duties for themselves and societal development.