NEWLY admitted attorneys have been urged to place integrity above ambition and financial gain, with High Court judge Justice Frank Seepersad warning that the legal profession’s credibility depends on practitioners who remain faithful to principle.

Addressing the group of 60 attorneys admitted to practise during a ceremony at the Convo­cation Hall, Hall of Justice, Port of Spain, yesterday, Justice Seepersad reminded them that admission to the Bar represented far more than an academic achievement.

“Today’s ceremony marks your admission into one of the institutions upon which constitutional order, democra­tic stability, and public confidence ultimately depend,” he stressed.