Lawyers’ Professional Responsibility, fifth edition has been updated throughout. It remains a detailed yet accessible treatment of lawyers’ professional and ethical responsibilities, and is suitable for students and practitioners alike.

 This edition includes commentary on the impending attempts to procure uniformity in statutory regulation of lawyers across Australia. Relevant provisions in the proposed Legal Profession National Law are cited, and the avenues whereby the national model is proposed to be achieved are identified and explained.

This edition contains references to the most recent national model professional rules for barristers (which have already seen implementation in four jurisdictions) and to the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules. Although the latter currently apply only in South Australia and Queensland, they are slated for introduction elsewhere in due course.

Changes to professional rules in other jurisdictions are noted, including the new United Kingdom rules, for comparative purposes. As always, the book is comprehensive, with detailed footnoting of relevant provisions and rules in each Australian jurisdiction, and evincing a truly comparative perspective with other common law countries.

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  Professional Responsibility & Legal Ethics in Queensland

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Part I – Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Concept of Professional Responsibility
Chapter 2 - Admission to Practice
Chapter 3 - The Lawyer-Client Relationship

Part II – Lawyers’ Duty to the Client

Chapter 4 - Duties to the Client and their Enforcement
Chapter 5 - Lawyers’ Duty to Clients in Tort
Chapter 6 - Lawyer-Client Conflict and Influence
Chapter 7 - Concurrent Conflicts
Chapter 8 - Acting against Former Clients
Chapter 9 - Duty to Account
Chapter 10 - Confidentiality
Chapter 11 - Legal Professional Privilege
Chapter 12 - Privilege in Aid of Settlement
Chapter 13 - Employed (“In-house”) Lawyers

Part III – Costs

Chapter 14 - Costs Disclosure and Costs Agreements
Chapter 15 - Recovery of Costs from Clients
Chapter 16 - Solicitors’ Liens

Part IV – Lawyers’ Duty to the Administration of Justice

Chapter 17 - Duty to the Court
Chapter 18 - Particular Applications of the Duty to the Administration of Justice
Chapter 19 - Duty to Obey and Uphold the Law

Part V – Other Lawyer Responsibilities

Chapter 20 - Conduct of Practice
Chapter 21 - Relations with the Profession and Third Parties
Chapter 22 - Undertakings

Part VI – Discipline of Lawyers

Chapter 23 - The Disciplinary Jurisdiction
Chapter 24 - Disciplinary Procedures
Chapter 25 - Types of Misconduct