LEADER 04697oam 2200625I 450 001 9910798233203321 005 20230801235152.0 010 $a1-84314-818-8 010 $a1-135-32832-3 010 $a1-135-32831-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781843148180 035 $a(CKB)3710000000636219 035 $a(EBL)4500488 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16417617 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12108303 035 $a(PQKB)10813784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4500488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4500488 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11202072 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL911911 035 $a(OCoLC)946724749 035 $a(OCoLC)950005301 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB132566 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000636219 100 $a20180331e20122004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthics of the legal profession $ea new order /$fSir Fred Phillips 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 300 $aFirst published in 2004 by Cavendish Publishing Limited. 311 $a1-85941-963-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Table of Abbreviations; 1 A Crisis in Legal Ethics; Excess of lawyers; Greater consciousness; Governments' intervention; Business v profession; The English position; Canada; The United States of America; How the Third World copes with the crisis; Concluding remarks; 2 The Law - A Business Rather than a Profession?; Introduction; Law firms; Novel business ways of delivery; For-profit plans; Prepaid legal plans; Permissibility of these plans; Canadian plans; Position in the Caribbean 327 $aEngland and WalesConclusion; 3 Access to Justice; Fundamental obstacle; Constitutional development; The world economic order changes; The effect of the legislative changes; What changes have taken place with legal aid overseas?; How lack of resources obstructs; Fee structure; Contingency fees; Canadian courts lead the way; What are the arguments in favour of contingency fees?; The future of access to justice in the case of hard-pressed governments; Concluding comments; 4 Immunity from Suit; Rondel v Worsley; Saif Ali v Mitchell; Irony in the history of immunity from suit; Hall v Simons 327 $aConcluding comments with special reference to the application of Hall v Simons to developing countries5 Professional Responsibility of Lawyers; Introductory remarks; Basis of contractual liability; Concurrent liability in contract and tort; The impulse to do practical justice in lawyers' liability; Breaches of trust; How duties of a solicitor are to be carried out; Remoteness and foreseeability; Further relations between lawyer and client; Identity of the client; Concluding summary; 6 Wasted Costs; Is the wasted costs jurisdiction justifiable or practicable?; Basis of jurisdiction 327 $aFurther case law on the subject in England, New Zealand and CanadaConclusion; 7 Confidentiality and Legal Professional Privilege; (A) Confidentiality in general; (B) Legal professional privilege; (C) Concluding summary: application of the rules to developing countries; 8 Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Walls; The history and background; The nature of the interest; Scope of this review; Concluding remarks, with special reference to conflict in Third World countries; 9 Self-Regulation and Discipline in the Profession; Introductory remarks; Part I - self-regulation; Part II - discipline 327 $aPart III - judicial codesConcluding summary; 10 Ethics of the Criminal Process; Respective functions of prosecutor and defence counsel; When may defence counsel withdraw his services?; Duty of confidentiality; Does counsel deliver justice?; The ethics of the English system; The position overseas; How do the ethics of the defence attorney stand in newly-independent countries?; The prosecution; Functions of prosecutors; Who prosecutes? To whom responsible?; The fairness of the trial; Police powers vis-a?-vis suspects and persons charged; Negotiated justice; The jury; Concluding comments 327 $a11 Alternative Dispute Resolution 606 $aLegal ethics 615 0$aLegal ethics. 676 $a174.309729 700 $aPhillips$b Fred$cSir,$f1918,$01553926 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798233203321 996 $aEthics of the legal profession$93814800 997 $aUNINA