Professional Legal Ethics

Ethics and regulation have become catchwords of the late 1990s, yet relatively little has been written about the ethical discourse and regulation of the legal professions in England and Wales. This book represents the first attempt to subject the ethical discourse of the English legal professions to in-depth analysis and sustained critique.

Donald Nicolson: taught at the Universities of Cape Town, Warwick and Reading before taking up a post at the University of Bristol in 1992. Here he teaches jurisprudence, legal methods, criminal law and gender and the law. He also has a research interest in evidence theory. He is on the editorial board of Evidence and Proof and Legal Ethics and the founder and Director of the University of Bristol Law Clinic.

Julian Webb: After completing a research degree at Warwick University in the early 1980s, Julian held various teaching and research posts in London before moving to the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1988, where he was consecutively a senior and principal lecturer in the Law Faculty and, finally, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies. In March 1999 he returned to London as Professor of Law at the University of Westminster, where he continues to teach and research in the areas of dispute resolution, legal ethics and legal education. He is articles editor of