LPAB17 - Legal Ethics

Description

Bundle of notes consisting of 2 parts - Part 1: Concise notes - Part 2: Summaries of the Lectures Contents W1 - Solicitor-Client Relationship - Retainers and Instructions - Liens - Trust Account W2 - Professional Misconduct & Unsatisfactory Professional Misconduct - Post-Admission - Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct - Professional Misconduct - Show Cause Events - Disclosure Obligations - Renewal disclosures - Consequence of Non-disclosure W3 - Professional Discipline - Complaints - Preliminary View - Finding of Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct - Opinion of Professional Misconduct - Dealing with the Allegations - Standard and Onus of Proof - The Ultimate Questions - Right to Appeal - Nature of Disciplinary Proceedings and Orders W5 - Solicitor-Client Relationship - Without Prejudice Communications - Calderbank Letters - legal Professional Privilege - Professional Negligence W6 - The Legal Practice - Types of Legal Practice - Responsibilities of Partners - Undertaking - Dealing with Fellow Practitioners - Dealings with Unqualified Persons W7 - Regulation of Solicitors and Barristers - Regulation of the Legal Profession - Regulation of Barristers W8 - Admission and Expulsion from the Legal Profession - Pre-Admissions - Interference with administration of Justice - Conduct Outside Practice W9 - Barrister's Duty to the Court - Aspects of an Advocate's Duty to the Court - Elements of an Advocate's Duty to the Court W10 - Barrister's Duty to the Client - Duty to the Client - Immunity - Duty to the Client - Elements W11 - Barrister's Duty to Others - Duty to the Public, Other Parties, and Colleagues - Duty to the opponent - As a Prosecutor - Legal Aid commission W12 - Artificial Intelligence W13 - Overview / Summary