By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh 13th
September:- The Career Development Cell of the University
Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a workshop
of “Careers in law with reference to medico-legal field, medico-legal immigration
and other related matters”. Ms. Radhika Thapar Bahl, an alumna of department of
laws, Panjab University and the founder of ‘Fertility law Care’, a well
renowned law firm in Gurugram that deals particularly with fertility laws
including surrogacy and other child welfare laws. She has also worked with the
ministry of home affairs regarding the rules and regulations relating to
surrogacy and other child welfare laws.
Various arenas of career in law were
discussed such as Teaching, Litigation, Government Jobs, Judiciary, etc. She
discussed about how diverse the law has become that the new fields are emerging
citing examples of Medico legal laws, Immigration laws, human rights law, IPR
and a never ending list. Further she asked the students to explore their
interest and then work in that direction. Discussing about the positive aspects
and the shortcomings of litigation as a profession she emphasized that a person
needs to be patient and should be ready to face any failures in the course to
reach heights.
Moving forward towards the issue of fertility
laws surrogacy laws and why the need of such laws arose. Along with this, she
also focused on explaining the students about IVF and other related issues. She
explained how these laws are useful in the society also specifying certain
loopholes in these laws. Not just stopping here, she also suggested what could
be possibly done and how the need to develop law has become necessary due to
advancement in technology. She also explained the importance of term consent
that it is not required in case of emergency and no hospital can deny treatment
in case of emergency. Further, she discussed that confidentiality in the
medical profession and the legal profession is very important.
Coming to another aspect of lecture which is
immigration matters, she explained the complications in the procedure followed.
All the legal aspects which are involved, all documentation etc. were discussed
by her. She discussed the cases which she had handled in her time of practice
The workshop proved to be very beneficial for
all the students of UILS, especially for the students who came in great numbers
to be enriched by her knowledge and also equipped the crowd professionally so
that they are gainfully placed in the legal industry.
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