Lawyers’ Professional Responsibility, Eighth Edition is a detailed yet accessible treatment of lawyers’ legal and professional responsibilities, suitable for students and practitioners alike. This comprehensive book contains detailed footnoting of relevant provisions and rules in each Australian jurisdiction. Lawyers’ Professional Responsibility’s content and commentary are not confined to developments across Australia, but where relevant contain comparative coverage from the main common law jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. This edition includes content and commentary on the Legal Profession Uniform Law, implemented in New South Wales and Victoria and now also in Western Australia, together with the various uniform rules, for both solicitors and barristers. - Publisher's website.
Note
Previous edition: 2021.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes index and bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Part 1: Introduction 1. The concept of professional responsibility 2. Admission to practice 3. The lawyer–client relationship
Part 2: Lawyers’ duty to the client 4. Duties to the client and their enforcement 5. Lawyers’ duty to clients in tort 6. Lawyer–client conflict and influence 7. Concurrent conflicts 8. Acting against former clients 9. Duty to account 10. Confidentiality 11. Legal professional privilege 12. Privilege in aid of settlement 13. Employed (in-house) lawyers
Part 3: Costs 14. Costs disclosure and costs agreements 15. Recovery of costs from clients 16. Solicitors’ liens
Part IV: Lawyers’ duty to the administration of justice 17. Duty to the court 18. Particular applications of the duty to the administration of justice 19. Duty to obey and uphold the law
Part V: Other lawyer responsibilities 20. Conduct of practice 21. Relations with the profession and third parties 22. Undertakings
Part VI: Discipline of lawyers 23. The disciplinary jurisdiction 24. Disciplinary procedures 25. Types of misconduct.
