Not exact matches
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 require
Rules of Professional Conduct (the «conduct
rules») contain no such express require
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).
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.
To ensure that legal professionals are not unwittingly used by their clients to help with these activities, all of Canada's law
societies enforce
rules of conduct based on
model rules developed by the Federation.
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.
Their discussions revealed that in both the home and at schools children behaved badly because they might have poor role
models; poor value systems that degrade children; repressive
rules and procedures that stifle curiosity and cognition; and that the patriarchal
society also contributed to children's behavioural difficulties.