Professional misconduct, may consist in betraying the confidence of a client, in attempting by any means to practise a fraud or impose on or deceive the court or the adverse party or his counsel, and in fact in any conduct which tends to bring reproach on the legal profession or to alienate the favourable opinion which the public should entertain concerning it, Corpus Juris Secundum (p. 740, Vol. 7), see also R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma, (2000) 7 SCC 264.
Means dishonesty or some conduct involving moral turpitude, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Kashi Prasad, AIR 1969 All 363.
The test to be applied in all such cases is whether the proved misconduct of the advocate is such that he must be regarded as unworthy to remain a member of the honourable profession to which he has been admitted and unfit to be entrusted with the responsible duties that an advocate is called upon to perform. There is a world of difference between the giving of improper legal advice and the giving of wrong legal advice. Mere negligence unaccompanied by any moral delinquency on the part of a legal practitioner in the exercise of his profession does not amount to professional misconduct, Pandurang Dattaraya Khardekar v. Bar Council of Maharashtra, AIR 1984 SC 110 (113). [Advocates Act, 1961, s. 35(1)]