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Author: Richard L. Abel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9780198260332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1990s, reforms in the English legal profession transformed traditions, over the vigorous objections of the judiciary, Bar, and Law Society. This book mines that tumultuous period for insights into the prospects of professionalism in the 21st century.
Author: Robert Granfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-11-04
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 019974517X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of original essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field examines the history, conditions, organization, and strategies of pro bono lawyering. Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession traces the rise and impact of the American Bar Association's campaign to hold lawyers accountable for a commitment to public service and to encourage public service within law schools. Combining empirical legal research with reflections by practitioners and theorists about the meaning and practice of pro bono legal work, this collection of essays interrogates the public service ideals that are inscribed within the legal profession and places these ideals within a broader social, economic, ideological, and normative context. Particular attention is paid to the factors that explain why lawyers engage in pro bono work and the ways in which their views of pro bono are mediated by the institutional context of their legal practice. The book also explores the concept of "public" in public service and compares pro bono as a means of delivering legal services with other mechanisms such as state funding. Collectively, these essays investigate the evolving role of pro bono in the legal profession and in law schools, the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, the way that pro bono is shaped by external forces beyond the individual practitioner, and the multi-faceted nature of legal professionalism as expressed through pro bono practice.
Author: Michael D. A. Freeman
Publisher: Academic
Published: 2009-11-19
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 019958091X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaw and Anthropology, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and anthropology scholarship today. Focussing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines it also includes case studies from around the world.
Author: Scott L. Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-07
Total Pages: 751
ISBN-13: 1108476155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first-ever analysis of the growing yet contested role of pro bono services in access to justice globally.
Author: Noel Semple
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015-02-27
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1784711667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho should be allowed to provide legal services to others? What characteristics must these services possess? Through a comparative study of English-speaking jurisdictions, this book illuminates the policy choices involved in legal services regulation a
Author: Martin Partington
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0199670536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text offers a lively analysis of the issues which currently face the English legal system, but without getting into the level of detail found in other texts.
Author: Andrew Boon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1509971777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth edition of this respected textbook examines the regulation and conduct of lawyers in England and Wales and addresses new developments in the field, including those in international practice, sexual misconduct, and the environment. Focusing on the practice of, and interrelationship between, solicitors and barristers, the book provides background to current arrangements while exploring contemporary rules of conduct, systems of regulation, and controversies. The four main parts cover client duties, wider obligations, key contexts, and regulation. Parts one to three provide an academic introduction to the subject of lawyers' ethics. They are suitable as a core text for a semester course at undergraduate level, providing grounding for vocational training, such as the Solicitors' Qualifying Examination. Comparisons are made with conduct rules applying in other leading common law jurisdictions where relevant. These parts also explore links between the subject of ethics and the development of lawyers' practical skills. Part four applies the general principles to three elements of regulation: practice, admission, and discipline. The approach throughout is socio-legal. While the essential law is described, relevant social science research informs consideration of issues and debates.
Author: Joan Loughrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1139496484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis assessment of the corporate governance role of corporate lawyers in the UK analyses the extent to which lawyers can and should act as gatekeepers, counsellors and reputational intermediaries. Focusing on external and in-house lawyers' roles in both dispersed share-ownership and owner-managed companies, Joan Loughrey highlights the conflicts of interest that are endemic in corporate representation and examines how lawyers should respond when corporate agents provide instructions contrary to the company client's interests. She also considers the legitimacy of 'creative compliance', the ethical arguments for and against lawyers prioritising the public interest over their clients' interests, and their exposure to liability if they fail to perform a corporate governance role. Finally, she considers whether the reforms to the legal profession will promote the lawyer's corporate governance role and advances suggestions for reform.
Author: Jacqueline Kinghan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1509938117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK. Underpinned by theories of cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers collectively take in order to frame the connections they make between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by their work. The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events. The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.
Author: Alan Paterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1139505068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the 2010 Hamlyn Lectures, Alan Paterson explores different facets of three key institutions in a democracy: lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary. In the case of lawyers he asks whether professionalism is now in terminal decline. To examine access to justice, he discusses past and present crises in legal aid and potential endgames and in relation to judges he examines possible mechanisms for enhancing judicial accountability. In demonstrating that the benign paternalism of lawyers in determining the public good with respect to such issues is no longer unchallenged, he argues that the future roles of lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary will only emerge from dialogues with other stakeholders claiming to speak for the public interest.
