Overview

Self-regulation and high ethical standards are supposed to be the defining characteristics of the legal profession, yet they are under attack from the state and the public. This book examines the ethics and conduct of the UK legal profession. It asks such questions as: is self-regulation crucial to the survival of the legal profession?; what fundamental philosophical principles govern ideas of professional conduct?; are the present codes regulating solicitors and barristers consistent with these principles?; and, looking forward, are they appropriate when the legal profession faces radical social, political and economic change? These issues should be of interest to everyone concerned with the dynamics of the justice system in England and Wales. Without an independent legal profession, is justice possible? Students, teachers and practitioners should find this book a comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide to and analysis of professional conduct and ethics.

Full Product Details

Author:   Andy Boon ,  Jennifer Levin
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.845kg
ISBN:  

9781841130187

ISBN 10:   1841130184
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   01 February 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9781841137087
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Professional ethics: the nature of professional ethics; professional autonomy and power; professional organization and culture. Part 2 Professional commitments: governance and representation; the regulatory structure in England and Wales; ethics and legal education. Part 3 The focus of professional duties: lawyers and their clients; obligations to third parties; public service. Part 4 Duties to clients and potential clients: confidentiality; conflicts of interest; fees and costs. Part 5 Dispute resolution: litigation and bargaining in an adversarial system; advocacy services; Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Epilogue.

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The publication of this book should put to rest any future controversy about whether legal ethics is a deserving topic of academic research and whether it should be taught in law faculties. The answer that Boon and Levin give is a resounding and uncompromising YES. In a convincing and powerful way, they have provided the necessary scholarly compliment and complement to the Lord Chancellors Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conducts insistence that legal ethics should be at the heart of all stages of legal education. The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales is a book that should take pride of place on the bookshelves of any self-respecting lawyer or academic. ...quite simply an exemplary and superior piece of legal scholarship that merits attention by anyone who is interested in the workings of the legal profession and the development of law which of course, should mean everyone. --Journal of Law and Society Throughout this book, the authors raise many questions for their Canadian counterparts. --University of Toronto Law Journal

"""The publication of this book should put to rest any future controversy about whether legal ethics is a deserving topic of academic research and whether it should be taught in law faculties. The answer that Boon and Levin give is a resounding and uncompromising YES. In a convincing and powerful way, they have provided the necessary scholarly compliment and complement to the Lord Chancellors Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conducts insistence that legal ethics should be at the heart of all stages of legal education. The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales is a book that should take pride of place on the bookshelves of any self-respecting lawyer or academic. ...quite simply an exemplary and superior piece of legal scholarship that merits attention by anyone who is interested in the workings of the legal profession and the development of law which of course, should mean everyone."" --Journal of Law and Society ""Throughout this book, the authors raise many questions for their Canadian counterparts."" --University of Toronto Law Journal"

Author Information

Andrew Boon is Head of the School of Law at the University of Westminster. Jenny Levin was until recently Professor of Law at University of Wales, Swansea, where she was a founder of the law school.

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