Ethics, values and professional responsibilities

B Wolski

Ethics, values and professional responsibilities

B Wolski

Faculty of Law

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Abstract

The various skills used by lawyers are interrelated. An attempt is made to separate them in texts such as this one for the purpose of study. However, there is one skill (or, more accurately a set of skills) which ideally should never be separated from the others: lawyers must be able to recognise and respond appropriately to ethical dilemmas. What does this involve?
First, lawyers need to recognise an ethical dilemma when they are confronted with one. An ethical dilemma arises when there is a conflict of values - or a range of conflicting values at stake which suggests "a variety of alternative and contradictory courses of action".1 Lawyers must decide which course of action to pursue.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Skills, ethics and values for legal practice
Editors	Bobette Wolski
Place of Publication	Prymont
Publisher	Lawbook Co.
Pages	47-120
Number of pages	74
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Print)	9780455225920
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Ethics, values and professional responsibilities

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Advocacy

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Dispute resolution

The evaluation of the current rules of professional conduct governing legal representatives in mediation in Australian and the Unites States and a range of proposed alternative 'nonadversarial' ethics systems for lawyers

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Ethics, values and professional responsibilities

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Client interviewing

Dispute resolution

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The evaluation of the current rules of professional conduct governing legal representatives in mediation in Australian and the Unites States and a range of proposed alternative 'nonadversarial' ethics systems for lawyers

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