Pakistan Bar Council seeks end to lawyers promising ‘guaranteed results’

ISLAMABAD: The disciplinary committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has stressed the need for concrete efforts to eliminate the menace of rendering professional services by lawyers with the promise of guaranteed results or “done basis” outcomes in exchange for legal fees. “It is high time for all bar councils of Pakistan to enact rules and regulations in their collective wisdom to eradicate the evil of rendering professional services on a ‘done basis’,” stated a five-page order issued by Sup...