In Search of the Ethical Lawyer
In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

Author: Adam Dodek

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0774831014

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What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this equally inspiring and troubling book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real-life stories – case studies, biography, and memoir – to examine the tension between ethics and the law. Whether re-examining high-profile cases, celebrating barristers who tore down barriers, or pointing out current injustices within the justice system, their stories are compelling and raise important questions about what it means to be a “good” lawyer.

Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Author: Allan C. Hutchinson

Publisher: Essentials of Canadian Law

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781552211298

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Changes in the way law is practiced, and who practices it, demand a new approach to legal ethics and professional responsibility--one that stresses personal responsibility over professional regulation. Hutchinsons book is an accessible introduction to the topic and a provocative call to arms for the profession. This edition includes analysis of the Canadian Bar Associations 2006 Code of Professional Conduct.

Lawyers' Ethics
Lawyers' Ethics

Author: Monroe H. Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781472448644

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This collection brings together classic articles on lawyers' ethics. Timeless and provocative, the essays explore the moral foundations of the lawyer's role as well as the personal and professional dilemmas lawyers face in the practice of law. The previously published articles sit alongside a specially commissioned introduction by the volume editors which provides an overview of the articles and themes in the collection.

Legal Ethics
Legal Ethics

Author: Geoffrey C. Hazard

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780804748827

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Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethics provides an explanation of the duties and dilemmas common to practicing lawyers in modern legal systems throughout the world. The authors focus their analysis on lawyers in independent practice in modern capitalist constitutional regimes, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the emerging legal systems in China and the former Soviet bloc, to develop connections between the legal profession and political systems based on the rule of law. They find that although ethical tension is inherent in the legal practice of all these societies, the legal profession is essential to stable political institutions.