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

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Lawbook. Co., 2021.

7th edition

90147

Lawyers' professional responsibility in Australia and New Zealand

Legal ethics.

Attorney and client.

Confidential communications -- Lawyers.

Part I: Introduction

1. The concept of professional responsibility

2. Admission to practice

3. The lawyer–client relationship

Part II: 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 III: Costs

14. Costs disclosure and costs agreements

15. Recovery of costs from clients

16. Solicitors’ liens

Part IV: 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 V: Other lawyer responsibilities

20. Conduct of practice

21. Relations with the profession and third parties

22. Undertakings

Part VI: Discipline of lawyers

23. The disciplinary jurisdiction

24. Disciplinary procedures

25. Types of misconduct.

Lawyers' Professional Responsibility, seventh edition is a detailed yet accessible treatment of lawyers' legal and professional responsibilities, suitable for students and practitioners alike. This comprehensive book contains detailed footnoting of relevant provisions and rules in each Australian jurisdiction. Lawyers' Professional Responsibility's content and commentary are not confined to developments across Australia, but where relevant includes comparative coverage from the main common law jurisdictions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. This edition includes content and commentary on the Legal Profession Uniform Law, to date as implemented in New South Wales and Victoria, together with the various uniform rules, for both solicitors and barristers. - Publisher's website.

Previous edition: 2017.

Includes index and bibliographical references.

9780455244907

cxxxi, 891 pages ; 25 cm