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Eschewing 'tit for tat' in client (dis)courtesy [online]
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Dal Pont, G, Eschewing 'tit for tat' in client (dis)courtesy [online], Brief, 42, (9- October 2015) pp. 6. ISSN 0312-5831 (2015) [Professional, Non Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Professional rules identify, as a 'fundamental' ethical duty, that lawyers be "courteous in all dealings with clients, other practitioners and other persons involved in a matter where the practitioner acts for a client". As to lawyer-client dealings, treating clients courteously, and with attendant respect, is arguably easiest vis-a-vis clients who exhibit corresponding courtesy and respect, and whose words and actions are punctuated by both reasonableness and deference to the lawyer's advice. In a utopian world of legal practice, populated by 'model clients', courtesy and respect is hardly too much to ask of lawyers.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Professional, Non Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | Legal ethics; Attorney and client; Lawyers--Discipline; Misconduct in office |
| Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Research Group: | Applied Ethics |
| Research Field: | Legal Ethics |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Understanding Past Societies |
| Objective Field: | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified |
| Author: | Dal Pont, G (Professor Gino Dal Pont) |
| ID Code: | 105710 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Deposited By: | Faculty of Law |
| Deposited On: | 2016-01-13 |
| Last Modified: | 2016-01-13 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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