Of course, reporters in any area — in technical fields, or wherever bureaucracy blooms — can be
constrained by practitioners who pull up the ladder rather than open the gates.
However, lawyers usually give each other the benefit of the doubt,
constrained as we are
by the limits of our own expertise, and bound as we are
by a sense of professional responsibility, collegiality, and rules of professional conduct — such as Rule 6.03 (1) of the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Law Society of Upper Canada, which bids us to «avoid ill - considered or uninformed criticism of the competence, conduct, advice, or charges of other legal
practitioners.»