Sentences with phrase «societies model code»

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Thus, for instance, the philosophes of the secular Enlightenment (overwhelmingly male) frequently disparaged women as weak and emotional, and in seeking to restore an ancient, «classical» model of society undermined the rights women had enjoyed since the Middle Ages (a process which culminated in the laws of the Code Napoleon, promulgated in 1804).

I am very pleased to let you know that the Federation of Law Societies of Canada has launched the Interactive Model Code of Professional Conduct, a new free online tool that links the provisions in the Federation's Model Code to the matching or related rules of professional conduct in every law society in Canada.

This interactive tool will allow mobile lawyers, law society staff and leaders, academic researchers and others to quickly and easily find the enforceable rules in every Canadian jurisdiction using the national Model Code as the central reference point.

Yet the Model Code and the Law Society Codes and Rules of Professional Conduct (the «conduct rules») contain no such express requirement.

Law society codes of conduct direct lawyers to represent clients «resolutely and honourably» (FLS Model Code, Rule 5.1 - 1).

Law society codes of conduct tell lawyers that their fundamental duty is to practice law «honourably and with integrity» (e.g., FLS Model Code, Rule 2.1 - 1).

The Model Code, versions of which have been adopted by the law societies of most provinces and territories, is inadequate to the modern practice of family law and the holistic, family - and child - centred approach it demands.

In this post, I will discuss the lawyer's ethical obligations in ADR, as set out in the proposed amended Rules of Professional Conduct for the Law Society of Upper Canada that will implement the Federation of Law Societies of Canada's Model Code of Professional Conduct.

He serves on the Ethics Committee of the Law Society of New Brunswick, and on the Model Code Liaison Committee of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

Lawyer - neutrals may also be subject to various codes of ethics, such as the Code of Ethics for Arbitration in Commercial Disputes prepared by a joint committee of the American Bar Association and the American Arbitration Association or the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators jointly prepared by the American Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.

The Federation has approved a Model Code of Professional Conduct that has been implemented in whole or in part by all law societies except the Chambre des notaires in Quebec.

The amendments are based on the Model Code of Professional Conduct adopted by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the national coordinating body of Canadian law societies.

The Federation has established a Standing Committee on the Model Code of Professional Conduct, which monitors professional conduct developments and changes in the law and recommends improvements to the Model Code as law societies apply the rules.

To the extent possible, the Law Society has adopted the Model Code without modification.

Law societies across Canada are adopting the Federation's Model Code in support of national mobility and to promote public confidence in a self - regulated profession with a national set of common standards for professionalism and ethical behaviour.

In October 2011, the Law Society's Professional Regulation Committee began reviewing the Model Code for the purposes of implementation and sought the comments and views of lawyers on the proposed changes between June and August 2012.

The Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador adopted a new Code of Professional Conducted based on the FLSC model effective January 1, 2013.

Kudos to the Federation's Model Code Committee (chaired by Vancouver lawyer and former Law Society of BC President Gavin Hume, QC) for taking up the thorny but important ethical issues surrounding retired judges returning to practice.

Ongoing adoption of the Federation of Law Societies» Model Code of Professional Conduct by provincial law societies

See below for a Report and Request for Comments from Federation of Law Society on the Model Code of Professional Conduct.

I do not like the extent to which provincial law societies have simultaneously adopted the Federation's Model Code and undermined its ability to create national standards governing lawyer behaviour.