remarked that incivility remained one of the greatest threats to the ideals of American justice and to the public's trust in the law. The conduct of former presidentbill clintonwas considered to have seriously contributed to the harming of public confidence and trust in the legal profession becaus...
profession- the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists" law,jurisprudence- the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurispr...
professional conductSingaporeThis article addresses the impact of the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules 1998 in the context of ethics in litigation. The approach is to consider the scheme and application of these Rules, to examine the ethical norms applicable to the general conduct of ...
The next definitional issue is whether the term ‘lawyer regulation’ is intended to encompass regulation regarding: entry into the profession, the rules governing a lawyer's conduct (e.g., rules governing competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, fees, and advertising), and the conditions...
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“Citation”) against the Respondent for sexually harassing his client, AR (the “Complainant”) between approximately January 2016 and November 2017 contrary to one or more of rules 2.2-1 and 6.3-3 of theCode of Professional Conduct for British Columbia(the “BC Code”) and his fiduciary ...
这篇影评可能有剧透 MR 1.2 Scope of RepresentationUnder the Model Rule (“MR”) 1.2(a) a lawyer is required to abide by his client’s decisions regarding objectives and a lawyer may take action as to the means by which they are to be pursued. This allows the client to set the outcome...
Professional Rules for Lawyers (Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte, BORA)Act on Lawyers' Fees (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz, RVG)Specialist Lawyers’ Regulations (Fachanwaltsordnung, FAO)Charter of core principles of the European legal profession and Code of Conduct for European lawyers (Berufsregeln...
I. INTRODUCTION Canadian lawyers theoretically enjoy an almost unfettered right to self-regulation: the lawyer-controlled law societies govern admission to the profession, set standards of lawyer conduct and discipline lawyers for professional misconduct. At the same time, however, courts routinely issue...
A fairly stable consensus now seems to exist in the legal ethics literature that rules of "ethics," stated in the form of enforceable penal codes, have limited utility to remedy many of the observed problems with the professional conduct of lawyers.In this Article, I wish to look critically ...