Ethics And The Legal Profession

Author : Sir Fred Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135328313

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In countries outside the developed world, although writers have written commentaries on specific legal codes, very little attention has been given to legal writing which has focused specifically on the ethics of the legal profession. This book makes a special contribution in that regard providing, as it does, a comparative study of prevailing efforts to enhance ethical standards in a profession potentially in crisis and under much public scrutiny. Countries which have been examined include the UK, the US, Canada, South Africa, and countries in the Pacific, South East Asia and the Caribbean. Valuable guidance and learning are provided on such topical issues as wasted costs orders, conflicts of interests, legal and judicial codes, confidentiality, privilege and the ethics of the criminal process, where the jury system comes in for critical evaluation. This book will be a valuable text on the ethics and status of the profession. It will be of considerable interest to law students, practitioners and legal academics, Bar Associations, Attorneys-General and Directors of Public Prosecutions as well as members of the judiciary.

Author : Michael Davis,Frederick Elliston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061227505

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Ethics and the Legal Profession by Michael Davis,Frederick Elliston Pdf

Contains articles that explore confrontations in the daily practice of law, employing case studies. This text is divided into 6 sections, each dealing with an important issue: the Structure of the Profession; the Moral Critique of Professionalism; the Adversary System; Conflict of Interest; Client Confidences; and, the Provision of Legal Services.

Author : Alice Woolley,Richard Francis Devlin,Brent Cotter,John M. Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Legal ethics
ISBN : 0433490306

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Lawyers' Ethics and Professional Regulation by Alice Woolley,Richard Francis Devlin,Brent Cotter,John M. Law Pdf

Author : Adam Dodek,Alice Woolley
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774831017

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In Search of the Ethical Lawyer by Adam Dodek,Alice Woolley Pdf

What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real-life stories to probe the tension between ethics and the law. Whether re-examining high-profile cases, celebrating barristers who tore down barriers, or pointing out current injustices within the justice system, their stories are compelling and raise important questions about what it takes to be a “good” lawyer.

Author : Allan C. Hutchinson
Publisher : Essentials of Canadian Law
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552211290

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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility by Allan C. Hutchinson Pdf

Changes in the way law is practiced, and who practices it, demand a new approach to legal ethics and professional responsibility--one that stresses personal responsibility over professional regulation. Hutchinsons book is an accessible introduction to the topic and a provocative call to arms for the profession. This edition includes analysis of the Canadian Bar Associations 2006 Code of Professional Conduct.

Author : Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136937415

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Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics by Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter Pdf

The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the years. This book offers contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the shape of the legal profession. It examines how the public sees lawyers and how lawyers see their own profession.

Author : Gavin MacKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : 0459552201

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Lawyers and Ethics by Gavin MacKenzie Pdf

Author : Geoffrey C. Hazard,Angelo Dondi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804748829

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Legal Ethics by Geoffrey C. Hazard,Angelo Dondi Pdf

Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethics provides an explanation of the duties and dilemmas common to practicing lawyers in modern legal systems throughout the world. The authors focus their analysis on lawyers in independent practice in modern capitalist constitutional regimes, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the emerging legal systems in China and the former Soviet bloc, to develop connections between the legal profession and political systems based on the rule of law. They find that although ethical tension is inherent in the legal practice of all these societies, the legal profession is essential to stable political institutions.

Author : Michael Davis,Frederick Elliston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043928006

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Ethics and the Legal Profession by Michael Davis,Frederick Elliston Pdf

Contains articles that explore confrontations in the daily practice of law, employing case studies. This text is divided into 6 sections, each dealing with an important issue: the Structure of the Profession; the Moral Critique of Professionalism; the Adversary System; Conflict of Interest; Client Confidences; and, the Provision of Legal Services.

Author : Donald Nicolson,Julian Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192672001

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Professional Legal Ethics by Donald Nicolson,Julian Webb Pdf

Ethics and regulation have become catchwords of the late 1990s, yet relatively little has been written about the ethical discourse and regulation of the legal professions in England and Wales. This book represents the first attempt to subject the ethical discourse of the English legal professions to in-depth analysis and sustained critique. Drawing on insights from moral philosophy, social theory, the sociology of the legal profession, public law theories of regulation, and the extensive American literature on lawyers' ethics, it argues that, in seeking to provide definitive answers to particular problems of professional conduct, professional legal ethics has failed to deliver an approach which requires lawyers actively to engage with the ethical issues raised by legal practice. Through an analysis of the core issues facing lawyers, the authors locate this failure in the profession's reliance on a liberal and adversarial role morality that conceptualises the ethical values of human dignity, autonomy and equality in a formalistic and narrowly legalistic manner. This encourages lawyers to overlook the real invasions of these values so often wrought by upholding clients legal rights, and to ignore the competing claims of affected third parties, the wider community and the environment In seeking to move beyond critique, the authors develop throughout the book a contextual approach to individual ethical decision-making and outline a range of institutional, regulatory and educational reforms which, they suggest, could form the basis for a more ethical brand of professionalism. Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis written for lawyers, ethicists and policy-makers interested in this neglected area of professional ethics and regulation.

Author : Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Legal ethics
ISBN : 9780198788928

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Legal Ethics by Jonathan Herring Pdf

Who would or should defend a potential murderer in court? How do professions regulate themselves? Is 'no win-no fee' an ethical system? Where is the line in a 'suitable' client-advocate relationship? Jonathan Herring provides a clear and engaging overview of legal ethics, highlighting that the issues surrounding professional conduct are not always black and white and raising interesting questions about how lawyers act and what their role entails. Key topics, such as confidentiality, negligence, and fees are covered, with references throughout to the professional codes of conduct. Features throughout the textbook to aid student learning include the highlighting of key cases, principles, and definitions; the inclusion of a variety of viewpoints through coverage of cases, popular media, and scholarly articles; and use inclusion of 'digging deeper' and 'alternative viewpoint' boxes which encourage critical reflection and better understanding of key theories and topics. The well developed online resource centre includes Podcasts linked to the 'what would you do' chapter features, video debates, relevant updates and web links.

Author : GEORGE WILLIAM WARVELLE
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781304570185

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ESSAYS IN LEGAL ETHICS by GEORGE WILLIAM WARVELLE Pdf

George William Warvelle, 1852-1940, was a legal paragon in his time; a Professor of Law in Chicago; a prominent legal scholar; and the author of many law volumes still in print and found in law offices and libraries today. This book was first published in 1902 in an era of no radio, no TV, or other electronic wastelands; an era when man communicated with conversation, reading and writing. The book is by a lawyer and was aimed at the then law students and practicing lawyers; however, the lessons therein are of historical interest to any lawyer or scholarly person today.

Author : ALICE. WOOLLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433505877

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UNDERSTANDING LAWYERS' ETHICS IN CANADA. by ALICE. WOOLLEY Pdf

Author : Orrin Nelson Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : IOWA:31858013327691

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Ethics of the Legal Profession by Orrin Nelson Carter Pdf

Author : Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136937408

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Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics by Reid Mortensen,Francesca Bartlett,Kieran Tranter Pdf

The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise, this collection seeks to disrupt this homogenising impulse and to present alternative voices by bringing together a range of international scholars writing about legal ethics and the legal profession. The book features significant and timely contributions which take contemporary and non-mainstream perspectives on the current and future shape of the legal profession. The essays not only describe the rapidly changing profession but canvas different approaches to scholarship on the legal profession. The collection seeks to explore a diverse and contextualised profession from a number of angles. Authors examine how the public sees lawyers and how lawyers see their own profession; how we practise law and how this practice shapes lawyers; how such cultural and professional practice intersects with institutional structures of the law to create certain legal outcomes; and how we regulate the legal profession to modify or institute ethical practice. The volume provides insights into legal culture and ethics from the perspective of authors from Australia, Canada, England, the United States, New Zealand and Kenya – a diversity of national perspectives that give valuable insights into developments in the profession at the local and global level. It also illustrates diversity within the profession by tracing differing professional career trajectories based on raced or gendered barriers, alternative ethical strategies and the impact of organisational cultures in which lawyers practice.