Long title
Ethics in Legal Education
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Publication
The Law Teacher
Volume number
33
Issue number
3
Year
1999
First page number
298
Last page number
300
Country
United Kingdom
Abstract
This is one of six articles collected into a Special Issue of the Law Teacher on Ethics in Legal Education, published in 1999.
Lord Justice Potter, at the time of writing, the Chair of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory committee on Legal Educatioon and Conduct, picks up the theme that ethics needs to be treated differently at the undergraduate and vocational stages. He argues that without a grounding in legal ethics the study of the ethics of a lawyer risks being seen as no more than a restrictive application of the Codes and that an early introduction to ethical principles may help to minimise subsequent unethical practice by lawyers. He endorses both the integration of ethics into the curriculum and a compulsory ethics module, encourages cooperation between teaching institutions and gives his own reasons why the black-letter approach alone is inadequate.
Lord Justice Potter, at the time of writing, the Chair of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory committee on Legal Educatioon and Conduct, picks up the theme that ethics needs to be treated differently at the undergraduate and vocational stages. He argues that without a grounding in legal ethics the study of the ethics of a lawyer risks being seen as no more than a restrictive application of the Codes and that an early introduction to ethical principles may help to minimise subsequent unethical practice by lawyers. He endorses both the integration of ethics into the curriculum and a compulsory ethics module, encourages cooperation between teaching institutions and gives his own reasons why the black-letter approach alone is inadequate.
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