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Conducting Yourself Ethically In Your Day-to-Day Practice
Understanding Lawyers' Ethics in Canada, 3rd Edition addresses the ethical issues lawyers face in their dealings with clients – complete with analysis, commentary and insight. Legal ethics experts Justice Alice Woolley and new co-author Professor Amy Salyzyn have written a thorough and scholarly review of the legal and ethical duties every lawyer must fulfill to manage risk and make prudent decisions in everyday practice.
Features of This Book
The third edition of Understanding Lawyers' Ethics in Canada discusses significant practice and case law developments since the previous edition was published in 2016. The text updates readers on the latest challenges and ethical dilemmas for lawyers, and includes:
- The lawyer-client relationship
- Advocacy
- Lawyer-client trust and confidence
- Client perjury
- Dealing with witnesses
- Conflicts of interest
- Criminal law
- Access to justice
What's New in This Edition
- R. v. White (the lawyer-client relationship)
- R. v. Suter (the legal consequences of lawyer advice)
- Bent v. Platnick (lawyer liability in defamation)
- Salomon v. Matte"'Thompson (the scope of the lawyer's advisory role)
- Canada (Attorney General) v. Chambre des notaires du Québec (the scope of solicitor-client privilege)
- Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. University of Calgary (legislative exceptions to solicitor-client privilege)
- R. v. R.V. (ethical cross-examination and prosecutorial discretion)
- Ontario (Attorney General) v. Clark (prosecutorial liability and independence)
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