Legal Ethics
Text and Materials

This title examines all the issues concerned with legal ethics.

Richard O'Dair (Author)

9780521606004, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 March 2001

520 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.69 kg

This title examines all issues concerned with legal ethics. Part one looks at lawyers' ethics including professionalism and the English legal profession and professional regulation. Part two addresses specific topics in legal ethics including confidentiality, criminal defence and prosecution, counselling, negotiation and conflict of interest.

Preface
Acknowledgements
The Alexander Maxwell Law Scholarship Trust
Abbreviations
Part I. Pervasive Issues in Legal Ethics: 1. Introduction to legal ethics
2. Philosophical foundations of legal ethics
3. Professionalism
4. Regulation and legal education
5. The standard conception of legal ethics
Part II. Particular Problems in Legal Ethics: 6. Criminal defence and prosecution
7. Lawyer-client confidentiality
8. Negotiation
9. Lawyers, clients and power
10. Lawyers, ethics and access to justice
11. Conflicts of interest
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational: Citizenship & social education [YQN], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]