Subjects:

Professional Conduct and Ethics

Contents:

A Crisis in Legal Ethics

The Law as a Business Rather than a Profession

Access to Justice

Immunity from Suit

Professional responsibility of Lawyers

Wasted Costs

Confidentiality and Legal Professional Privilege

Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Walls

Self-Regulation and Discipline in the Profession

Ethics of the Criminal process

Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Although some of their writers have written commentaries on specific legal codes, in countries outside the developed world, very little attention has been given to legal writing, which has focused specifically on the ethics of the legal profession. This book makes a special contribution in that regard providing, as it does, a comparative study of prevailing efforts to enhance ethical standards in a profession obviously in crisis and under much public scrutiny.

The countries, which have been examined include the UK, the USA, Canada, and some countries in the Pacific, South East Asia and the Caribbean as well as South Africa. Valuable guidance and learning are provided on such topical issues as wasted costs orders, conflicts of interests, legal and judicial codes, confidentiality, privilege and the ethics of the criminal process where the jury system comes in for critical study.