Contents Preface ix 1 A Short History of Advocates and Courts in Manipur 1 2 Necessities of Laws in the Society 21 3 Legal Profession and its Ethics 29 4 The Past and the Present Judicial Status in Manipur 34 5 A View on the Legal Profession 46 6 Adversarial and Inquisitorial System and Police Reform 52 7 Role of the Advocates and the Protection of Citizens Rights 57 8 Lecture on Medical Evidence & Legal Follow-up in Manipur 65 9 Historic Function of the Centenary Celebration of the Tripura Bar Association 72 10 Professional Ethics and Misconduct 79 11 Role of the Advocates in the Society 87 12 Special Provisions for Children in the Constitution of India 92 13 Environment Laws and Forest Environment 97 14 Human Rights and Environmental Issues 104 15 Right to Legal Aid 113 16 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes under the Constitution of India 120 17 The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles & Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 129 18 Brief Notes on Laws Relating to Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 133 19 Doctor-Patient Relationships 136 20 Medical Profession under Legal Aspects 147 21 Medical Professional and Legal Aspects 171 22 Lawyers’ India 2006 174 This book entitled “Manipur Legal Voice,” a compilation of legal articles and rare quality and its values reflecting in itself written by Irom Lalitkumar Singh, a senior advocate will certainly shoot in the arms of those who are taking keen interest in the legal matters as the state of Manipur is facing dearth of local writer(s) especially in English at least at present. There is no gainsaying the fact that Manipur is, for the past many years, facing shortage of legal books written by the local writers and learned scholars even though markets in the state are interestingly flooded with books on laws written by non locals..