This collection of essays by leading judges, professional lawyers, and academics, should be of interest to anyone concerned with legal ethics and professional responsibility generally. Beginning with a general overview, the book proceeds to examine ethical rules pertaining to the judiciary, the Bar, and solicitors. Further chapters look at confidentiality, at the particular ethical problems of the family and criminal law jurisdictions, and at the teaching of legal ethics. Two further chapters put the subject into its wider social and professional context and the book closes by asking whether the medical ethics can throw light on legal ethics.;This text is intended for practising and academic lawyers concerned with the question of professional ethics and academic philosophers concerned with applied ethics in the professional sphere.