Lawyers' professional responsibility / by G.E. Dal Pont.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook Co., 2010.

4th edition

71071

Lawyers' professional responsibility in Australia and New Zealand.

Legal ethics -- Australia.

Attorney and client -- Australia.

Lawyers -- Discipline -- Australia.

Part 1: Introduction

1. The concept of professional responsibility

2. Admission to practice

3. The lawyer-client relationship

Part 2: Lawyers' duty to the client

4. Duties to the client and their enforcement

5. Lawyers' duty to clients in tort

6. Lawyer-client conflict and influence

7. Concurrent conflicts

8. Acting against former clients

9. Duty to account

10. Confidentiality

11. Legal professional privilege

12. Privilege in aid of settlement

13. Employed ("in-house") lawyers

Part 3: Costs

14. Costs disclosure and costs agreements

15. Recovery of costs from clients

16. Solicitors' liens

Part 4: Lawyers' duty to the administration of justice

17. Duty to the court

18. Particular applications of the duty to the administration of justice

19. Duty to obey and uphold the law

Part 5: Other lawyer responsibilities

20. Conduct of practice

21. Relations with the profession and third parties

22. Undertakings

Part 6: Discipline of lawyers

23. The disciplinary jurisdiction

24. Disciplinary procedures

25. Types of misconduct.

Previous edition published as: Lawyers' professional responsibility in Australia and New Zealand. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780455226842

lxxviii, 586 pages ; 25 cm