Legal Communication and Ethical Decision Making

LEGAL COMMUNICATION
AND ETHICAL DECISION
MAKING
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
LETTER OF ADVICE....................................................................................................................3
Reflection of issue...........................................................................................................................4
Liam Mayne case.........................................................................................................................4
Sally field case.............................................................................................................................5
Louis Thompson case..................................................................................................................6
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LETTER OF ADVICE
Date: 5 June, 2021
Dear Harry,
We are provding you Legal advice regarding the issues that you are facing with the cases
regarding your clients. The client name Liam Mayne who wants to sale his town house in
Melbourne and Liam has paid settlement monies of $ 750,000 into Horne Lawyers trust account.
Later you paid the accounting fees that you held from the trust monies and transfer into the
Horne Accounting Pty ltd bank account. Your another client was Sally who want some of the
part of her mother will and want some of the money and her brother refuses to do so wanted
whole will and testaments himself and you file the case. Hearing notice by the Justice Zayn were
twice given to you but you ignored it. You were so busy with the work that you forget to tell
Sally about the hearing and didn’t show your presence in court on the date of the hearing because
of which next date of hearing was provided. But even second time you forget to inform Sally and
didn’t went for the hearing. Because of this the Justice Zayn stuck out from the case and ordered
to pay her brother of the plaintiff pay in the sum of $7,000. Your next client is Louis Thompson
is being sued for misleading conduct in a commercial lease matter. The trail took place for 3 days
and on the second day Louis was called as witness by the Mr Malik who was your opponent
lawyer. On second day of trial Mr. Malik was cross-examining your client and would have
continued next day as well. Louis wanted to solve the case as soon as possible as for that after
the discussion with you he called to the Krystal for the resolve the matter before the next day
trial but she refused.
Thank you for coming to a meeting at our office on 15th May, 2021 for discussion of legal
issues that whether you are liable to any breaches of the ethical obligations while practising as an
Australian Legal Practitioner working as a solicitor in Victoria. From the previous discussion it
has been identified that in this case with, Liam Mayne, who is a property developer, he is not
liable for any kind of breach or ethical issue because your client Liam himself had asked you to
take legal costs for this sale matter from the settlement monies. Liam had also confirmed this in
written by sending an email to you. In this second case discussion held on 15th May, 2021 about
another client Sally Field, you did miss first two hearing dates and forget to inform Sallay about
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