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Legal ethics and professional responsibility

Author: Ross Cranston
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Among members of the legal profession and the judiciary, there is a genuine concern with establishing and maintaining high ethical standards. More than a set of rules of good conduct, legal ethics and professional responsibility are also a commitment to honesty, integrity and service in the practice of law. As such, underlying themes in this collection of essays posit that the move toward definite rules is not only
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ross Cranston
ISBN: 019825931X 9780198259312
OCLC Number: 33166670
Description: vi, 234 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility / Ross Cranston --
2. Judicial Ethics / Thomas Bingham --
3. The Professional Responsibility and Ethics of the English Bar / Anthony Thornton --
4. Professional Rules, Codes, and Principles Affecting Solicitors (or What Has Professional Regulation to do with Ethics?) / Alison Crawley and Christopher Bramall --
5. Confidence, Public Interest, and the Lawyer / Michael Brindle and Guy Dehn --
6. Professional Responsibility when Dealing with Parental Irresponsibility / Alan Ward --
7. Ethics and Criminal Justice / Andrew Ashworth --
8. Legal Ethics: Its Nature and Place in the Curriculum / Alan Paterson --
9. Large Law Firms and Professional Responsibility / Marc Galanter and Thomas Palay --
10. Doctoring Legal Ethics: Studies in Irony / Derek Morgan.
Responsibility: edited by Ross Cranston.
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Among members of the legal profession and the judiciary, there is a genuine concern with establishing and maintaining high ethical standards. More than a set of rules of good conduct, legal ethics and professional responsibility are also a commitment to honesty, integrity and service in the practice of law. As such, underlying themes in this collection of essays posit that the move toward definite rules is not only inevitable but desirable; that existing codes of professional practice cannot be treated as a system of specific rules; that the current set of ethical rules is contestable and requires refinement and perhaps radical surgery; and that legal ethics must be conceived within the more general framework of professional responsibility.

With wider ethical issues involving the legal profession now firmly on the agenda, both legal scholars and professionals are engaged in the development of acceptable standards. It is therefore appropriate that the essays in this volume are written by a distinguished group of law teachers, practitioners, and senior members of the judiciary. The essays in this volume arose from the 1993 annual conference of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (the SPTL) at which the theme was professional responsibility and legal ethics.

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