Lawyers' professional responsibility /
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| Author / Creator: | Dal Pont, G. E. (Gino Evan), author. |
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
| Imprint: | Pyrmont, NSW : Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited, 2021. ©2021 |
| Description: | cxxxi, 891 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12697935 |
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.
