High Distinction LAWS2013 Legal Profession Exam Notes

Description

These notes are comprehensive course notes which cover theoretical and legal issues throughout the course. They are detailed and designed to help you synthesise the case law, statute law and readings; so you can go straight into answering questions, without having to interpret lists of cases and their relationships to statute law. Topics covered are: -Introduction to Legal Ethics -Approaches to Legal Ethics -The future of lawyering, lawyers -Lawyers’ organisation and culture -Regulation of the legal profession -Admission to practice -Duties to the Court -Duties to the Client -Confidentiality -Client Legal Privilege -Conflict of lawyer’s duty, own interests -Conflict of duties of loyalty to different clients -Duties in Criminal Law -Duties of In-House Counsel -Costs and the duty to account -Lawyers’ Misconduct -Disciplinary Proceedings -Liability and Advocates’ Immunity Though these notes are comprehensive, as with all exam notes they are no substitute for reviewing the course content and should be used in conjunction with your lecture notes and readings.