Adrian Evans (Victoria Monash University)

Assessing Lawyers' Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Legal practitioners operate in an environment of seemingly endless ethical challenges, and against a backdrop of diminishing public opinion about their morality. Based on extensive research, Assessing Lawyers' Ethics argues that lawyers' individual ethics can be assessed and measured in realistic frameworks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780521764223
• ISBN-10: 052176422X
• Artikelnr.: 31893585

Autorenporträt

Adrian Evans is Associate Dean (Staff) of Monash Law School, and Co-Chair of the International Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An opportunity for law societies
2. Ethical failures, research and core qualities
3. Understanding ethical methods and types
4. Mechanisms to offset business pressure on legal ethics
5. Discovering practitioners' opinions about ethics assessment and psychological testing for integrity
6. Developing character: disciplinary histories and clients' assessments
7. Measuring awareness of values and ethics
8. Entrenching ethics assessment
Appendix A. Research methods: the Melbourne study
Appendix B. Awareness of ethical type: detailed methodology for scale development
Appendix C. Prototype scale of preference for legal ethical type.