Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Beginning with a general overview, this book examines ethical rules pertaining to the judiciary, the Bar, and solicitors. Further chapters look at confidentiality, at the particular ethical problems of the family and criminal law jurisdictions, and at the teaching of legal ethics. Other chapters put the subject into its wider social and professional context and ask whether the medical ethics can throw light on legal ethics.

Beginning with a general overview, this book examines ethical rules pertaining to the judiciary, the Bar, and solicitors. Further chapters look at confidentiality, at the particular ethical problems of the family and criminal law jurisdictions, and at the teaching of legal ethics. Other chapters put the subject into its wider social and professional context and ask whether the medical ethics can throw light on legal ethics.