Lawyers' professional responsibility / G. E. Dal Pont.
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Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Pyrmont, NSW :
Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited,
2021.
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LAWS 101
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Format: | Book |
Table of Contents:
- The concept of professional responsibility
- Admission to practice
- The lawyer-client relationship
- Duties to the client and their enforcement
- Lawyers' duty to clients in tort
- Lawyer-client conflict and influence
- Concurrent conflicts
- Acting against former clients
- Duty to account
- Confidentiality
- Legal professional privilege
- Privilege in aid of settlement
- Employed ("in-house") lawyers
- Costs disclosure and costs agreements
- Recovery of costs from clients
- Solicitors' liens
- Duty to the court
- Particular applications of the duty to the administration of justice
- Duty to obey and uphold the law
- Conduct of practice
- Relations with the profession and third parties
- Undertakings
- The disciplinary jurisdiction
- Disciplinary procedures
- Types of misconduct.