This is the third edition of the leading textbook on legal ethics and the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales. As such it maps the complex regulatory environment in which the legal profession in England and Wales now operates. It opens with a critical overview of professional ideals, organisation, power and culture and an examination of the mechanisms of professions, exercised through governance, regulation, discipline and education. The core of the book explores the conflict between duties owed to clients (loyalty and confidentiality) and wider duties (to the profession, third parties and society). The final part applies lawyers' ethics to dispute resolution and settlement (litigation, negotiation, advocacy and alternative dispute settlement). Now laid out in a more accessible format and written in a more approachable style, the book is ideal reading for those teaching and learning in the field of legal ethics. - Publisher's website.
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Previous edtion 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I: Professional Ethics 1. Ideals 2. Culture 3. Power 4. Organisation Part II: Professional Structures 5. Governance 6. Education 7. Regulation 8. Discipline Part III: Clients 9. Loyalty 10. Confidences 11. Conflicts of Interest 12. Fees Part IV: wider Obligations 13. Individual Third Parties 14. Collective Third Parties 15. Service 16. Employment Part V: Dispute Resolution 17. Litigation 18. Negotiation 19. Advocacy 20. Alternative Dispute Resolution.
