The legal professions’ new handbooks: narratives, standards and values

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2016-07-02 DOI:10.1080/1460728x.2016.1209811

A. Boon

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ABSTRACT This article analyses the regulatory handbooks produced by the new regulators for solicitors and barristers, the main legal professions in England and Wales, following the Legal Services Act 2007. It focuses on the new codes of conduct and the 10 high-level regulatory standards that are a feature of each handbook. The article examines the ways in which key interests have been dealt with in the handbooks from the perspective of the historical narratives of the legal professions and their publications, including their previous codes of conduct. It is found that the barristers’ and solicitors’ codes project different ethical orientations towards the supposedly universal ‘standard conception of the lawyer’s role’ based on the principles of neutrality and partisanship. The origins, meaning and significance of the high-level standards are considered. They are found not to reflect the content of the codes of conduct or to communicate cherished elements of the professions’ historical narratives. It is argued that this is problematic in terms of the professional functions of regulation, education and communication.

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法律职业的新手册:叙述、标准和价值观

摘要:本文分析了2007年《法律服务法》颁布后，英格兰和威尔士的主要法律职业——律师和大律师——新监管机构制定的监管手册。它侧重于新的行为准则和10个高级监管标准，这是每个手册的一个特点。本文从法律专业及其出版物的历史叙述，包括其以前的行为守则的角度，审查了手册中处理关键利益的方式。研究发现，大律师和初级律师的行为准则对基于中立和党派原则的所谓普遍的“律师角色的标准概念”表现出不同的道德取向。讨论了高级标准的起源、含义和意义。人们发现它们没有反映行为准则的内容，也没有传达这些职业的历史叙述中所珍视的元素。有人认为，这在监管、教育和沟通的专业功能方面存在问题。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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