Overview
Lawyers, Ethics & Justice is a compulsory core course in applied legal ethics. It examines the structures, rules and values that enable ethical practice for lawyers. The course explores ethical issues that arise in professional practice and the regulations and standards that govern them. It considers these issues and principles … For more content click the Read More button below.
This course treats questions of ethics as found in everyday decisions and behaviour, general as well as those particular to lawyers. However, Lawyers, Ethics & Justiceaddresses, in particular, the responsibilities of lawyers in maintaining the integrity of the justice system. In doing so, students will analyse the roles lawyers do and should play in the justice system, and relate them to the values and routine skills lawyers have, or should have, to ensure effective and just outcomes.
The course is also designed for students to evaluate the conduct of lawyers, the nature of ethical practice, and the pursuit of justice in light of their own identities, values and skills. Students are asked to consider what acting in accordance their values would mean for their own professional lives.
During the course, students will start to develop the skills they will need to engage in ethical legal practice, including those to: identify and address ethics issues; work with colleagues and other professionals to institute and maintain ethical work practices; recognise and manage the diverse needs and interests of clients; and integrate often competing duties to clients, the workplace, the profession, the judicial system and society. This course combines interactive teaching, group work, and a clinical component in which students work with clients and lawyers at UNSW Law's Kingsford Legal Centre.
Main Topics
Personal values and attributes, ethics and legal professionalismCultural constructions of lawyers, ethics and justiceHistory and changing status of the legal professionAccess to justiceLegal culture and the workplaceQuestions of moralityProfessional duties and rulesLawyers' accountabilityClient duties and skillsEthics at the Criminal and Civil BarsNegotiation and ADRRecognising and resolving ethical problemsGlobalisation of law and legal practice in the regionClinical experience at KLC.
Conditions for Enrolment
Pre-requisite: 24 UOC completed in LLB courses including LAWS1052 or 24 UOC completed in Juris Doctor courses.
Delivery
In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)
Course Outline
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Fees
Type | Amount |
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Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable) | $1829 |
Domestic Students | $5250 |
International Students | $5940 |
Pre-2019 Handbook Editions
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