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.
