Sentences with phrase «of zealous advocacy»

This issue concerns my duty of zealous advocacy for my clients.

The Court of Appeal accepts the central importance of zealous advocacy, and it says the concept must be jealously protected and broadly construed, «but it is not absolute and must not be abused,» wrote the court.

This year's conference was titled «50 Years after Gault: Continuing to Fulfill the Promise of Zealous Advocacy for Juveniles.»

So the morality of the system effectively stands or falls with the practice of zealous advocacy.

We should eradicate this idea of zealous advocacy.

The ethical requirement of zealous advocacy does not mean you should be rude or angry during a deposition.

At Unwashed Advocate, Eric Mayer explains what is means to go through the motions of zealous advocacy.

They therefore possess the skills of zealous advocacy honed in litigation, but couple those skills with the more subtle approaches employed in international arbitration.

Hiring a woman to embody and soften the principle of zealous advocacy was an obvious choice for Ghomeshi.

Those judgments are uniquely available for scrutiny, and should be judged outside of the professional margins of zealous advocacy.

But an accused person is not entitled to a boundless defence; the lawyer's duty is one of zealous advocacy within the bounds of legality, not zeal unbounded.

The second involves the tension between the legal profession's broadly accepted duty of civility and the criminal defence bar's passionately guarded duty of zealous advocacy, in which the risk of an accused's imprisonment trumps any genteel notions of civility.

Nevertheless, the judge found the appeal panel's test for measuring potential professional misconduct — that counsel must not impugn their opponents unless they make their allegations in good faith and on a reasonable basis — «fails to go far enough to protect the importance of zealous advocacy.»

Does regulation ensure that lawyers fulfill their duty of zealous advocacy?

Of course, this must be balanced against counsel's duty of zealous advocacy (Rule 5.1).

All lawyers know they owe a duty of zealous advocacy to their clients.

[139] The crucial point is that all participants in litigation and the public have a legitimate right to expect that the advocate's duty of zealous advocacy will be tempered by the overriding duty to adhere to all the standards of the profession, including the duty to act with courtesy and civility and in good faith.

[133] The advocate's duty of professionalism encompasses both the duty of zealous advocacy and the duty of courtesy and civility...

[132] The duty of zealous advocacy must be jealously protected and broadly construed.