Lawyers, Ethics and Society

Course aim

The aim of this course are threefold: first, to ensure that students know the legal and ethical responsibilities of a professional lawyer; secondly, to ensure that students have an understanding of how to react to particular professional and ethical situations that might arise in the future; and thirdly, to facilitate legal career development planning.

Course content

The focus of this course is on the professional conduct responsibilities of legal practitioners in South Australia and on preparing students for admission to the profession. This requires understanding of:

• Ethics and Lawyering
• Personal virtues and values and legal professionalism
• Regulation of the Legal Profession
• Lawyers’ fees and costs
• Duties of Confidentiality and of Loyalty owed by lawyers to their clients
• Ethics in Civil and Criminal Litigation
• Ethics in Commercial and Corporate legal practice

Textbook(s)

Holmes, V., & Bartlett, F. 2022, Parker and Evans's Inside Lawyers' Ethics, 4th ed, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
LAWS 1030	Law, Governance and Citizenship
LAWS 1032	Torts
LAWS 1029	Contracts

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Workshop	3 hours x 10 weeks
Online	1 hour x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Problem solving exercise, Test/Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4C)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
International students and students undertaking this course as part of a postgraduate fee paying program must refer to the relevant program home page to determine the cost for undertaking this course.

Non-award enrolment
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.