Professional Ethics and Regulation in UK Law
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Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
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I also feel that those who are concerned that a matter of life and death, such as is involved in a decision to withhold life support in case of this kind, should be left to the doctors, would do well to study this paper. This is a topic to which I will return at the end of this opinion, when I come to consider the extent to which the view of the court should be sought, as a matter of practice, in cases such as the present.
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Barratt v Ansell (t/a as Woolf Seddon); Arthur JS Hall & Company v Simons
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To assess the likelihood, I think that one should start by considering the incentives which advocates presently have to comply with their duty and those which might tempt them to ignore it. The first consideration is that most advocates are honest conscientious people who need no other incentive to comply with the ethics of their profession. Then there is the wish to enjoy a good reputation among one's peers and the judiciary.
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Mitchell v News Group Newspapers Ltd
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If the non-compliance cannot be characterised as trivial, then the burden is on the defaulting party to persuade the court to grant relief. If there is a good reason for it, the court will be likely to decide that relief should be granted.
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Saif Ali v Sydney Mitchell & Company
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No matter what profession it may be, the common law does not impose on those who practise it any liability for damage resulting from what in the result turn out to have been errors of judgment, unless the error was such as no reasonably well-informed and competent member of that profession could have made. So too the common law makes allowance for the difficulties in the circumstances in which professional judgments have to be made and acted upon.
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Bolton v The Law Society
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But none of them touches the essential issue, which is the need to maintain among members of the public a well-founded confidence that any solicitor whom they instruct will be a person of unquestionable integrity, probity and trustworthiness. The reputation of the profession is more important than the fortunes of any individual member. Membership of a profession brings many benefits, but that is a part of the price.
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Barclays Bank Plc v O'Brien
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In particular, if the party asserting that he takes free of the earlier rights of another knows of certain facts which put him on inquiry as to the possible existence of the rights of that other and he fails to make such inquiry or take such other steps as are reasonable to verify whether such earlier right does or does not exist, he will have constructive notice of the earlier right and take subject to it.
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Whitehouse (A.P.) (Suing by his Mother and Next Friend Eileen Whitehouse) v Jordan and Others
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While some degree of consultation between experts and legal advisers is entirely proper, it is necessary that expert evidence presented to the court should be, and should be seen to be, the independent product of the expert, uninfluenced as to form or content by the exigencies of litigation. To the extent that it is not, the evidence is likely to be not only incorrect but self defeating.
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Professional value and ethical self-regulation in the development of modern librarianship. The documentality of library ethics
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to make a contribution to the theoretical understanding of documents and documentary agency in society through examples from a defined institut...
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Book Reviews
Books reviewed: K. D. Ewing and C. A. Gearty, The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in Britain Doreen McBarnet and Christopher Whelan, Creative Accounting and the ...
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CIMA disciplinary committee decisions.
......, thereby breaching the Code of Ethics (Professional Behaviour) and Members' Regulation ......
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Regulating Law Firm Ethics Management: An Empirical Assessment of an Innovation in Regulation of the Legal Profession in New South Wales
The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) was the first jurisdiction to fully deregulate law firm structure and allow alternative business structures in the legal profession. At the same time i...
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Law Society offers professional helpline
The UK Law Society is now offering solicitors professional help by email and fax. From the Law Society announcement: The Law Society helplines provide advice, support and access to pastoral care fo......... can also assist with questions about the anti-money laundering regulations. Lines are open from 0900 to 1700, Monday to Friday. Library – 0870 606 ...Other helplines Ethics helpline – 0870 606 2577 The Solicitors Regulation Authority provides ......
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Non-Disclosure Agreements: Ethics And Enforceability
...... disclosures of certain information, including in relation to professional misconduct - such as sexual harassment towards employees or clients - or ... should be held to account, and asks that the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board - the bodies regulating the legal ......
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Changing Codes of Conduct
In the first few days of October, the Market Research Society (MRS) and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) both decided to change their codes of ethics, but for two v.........) both decided to change their codes of ethics, but for two very different reasons. The driver ... European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and MRS states on their website[1] ... from their Code of Ethics and Professional Practice,[5] including passages such as:. . ......
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Insurers Must Navigate The Moral Maze Of AI
...The industry must develop a code of ethics around the insurance of artificial intelligence ... under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation - specifically rights regarding automated ...Lawyers and professional bodies like the General Medical Council also have ......