It's been around in one form or another since Hammurabi, and it is one of our most
important ethical codes.
Not exact matches
And being good meant trying to live in accord with the
ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific
code of righteousness, or more generally as following
important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.
Our Supplier
Code of Conduct and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act are
important parts of our
ethical sourcing efforts, and our ongoing assessments of our supply base ensure compliance.
It feels removed from the materialism of most residential homes, yet prompts viewers to question their own
ethical and moral
codes of what is fundamentally
important.
It is perhaps explicable that the 1970s CBA
Code did not include an
ethical obligation of Canadian lawyers to uphold a mere, albeit
important, evidentiary privilege.
Fortunately for many doc review attorneys, software hasn't completely eliminated the need for human reviewers, and predictive
coding raises at least two
important issues for attorneys: (1) their legal obligations to conduct a reasonable search for responsive documents under federal discovery rules, and (2) their
ethical obligation to safeguard a client's privileged information.
For instance, one might expect comments: 1) identifying
ethical problems in legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2) identifying the most
important or urgent
ethical problems in legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3) asking questions about the definition of «scholarship» or «legal scholarship,» what counts as legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific
ethical norms for legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or
code of the ethics of legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical, about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.
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.
Confidentiality is an
important aspect of any counseling relationship, mandated by the
ethical codes of the American School Counselor Association, the American Counseling Association, the Council of Canadian Child and Youth Care Associations, the National Board for Certified Counselors, and other professional associations (American Counseling Association, 2000a; American School Counselor Association, 1999a; Child and Youth Care Association of Alberta, 2002; Child and Youth Care Workers Association of Manitoba, 1988; National Board for Certified Counselors, 1997).
We have some power in our position which is why it is
important for us to have
ethical codes to protect our clients.
«Not only is fair housing an
important ethical commitment to our members, as outlined in our
Code of Ethics, it is critical to our ability to serve our customers, clients, and the community,» Mendenhall says.