Professional Conduct and Ethical Duties of Lawyers in Australia

The legal profession is subject to specific professional conduct
obligations. Outline the main professional conduct and/or ethical duties
of Australia

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The legal profession is considered to be as the specific group of individual which helps in
adhering with the key standards and various specific professional conduct obligation (Ries,
(2018)). This study will focus on effectively outlining the key main professional conduct and
effective ethical duties of lawyer within Australia.
MAIN BODY
A profession is referred to as one of the disciplined group of individuals who in turn
tends to highly adhere with the ethical standards while possessing specific special skills and
knowledge in a wide degree of recognised learning which has been derived from training,
education and research at high degree of level. Professional conduct is referred to as the field of
regulations who tends to effectively act within the contractual and statutory powers (Parker, &
Evans, (2018)). Australian lawyers need to be highly aware of the professional rules of conduct
within their jurisdiction. Ethics is considered to be as one of the key inherent feature associated
with any profession. Lawyers need to comply with three core ethical duties which mainly
includes duty to court, duty to obey the law and duty to the client. The key obligation of the
Australian lawyer is to deal with the third parties (Spencer,(2018)). The professional conduct in
turn highly differ from different jurisdiction. The law council of Australia has developed the
Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules (ASCR) in 2011. However, the Australian Solicitors
Conduct Rules has been complied within New South Wales, Queensland and Australia though
with slight differences.
Duty to the court
As per the Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules, the duty of a solicitor to the administration and
to the court is considered to be highly paramount. It helps in prevailing with the extent of various
inconsistencies with any other duty (Dal Pont, (2017)). A court in turn tends to include
investigation, tribunal or carried under a statute, a royal commission, meditation, arbitration and
also any other way to resolve dispute. It is the key responsibility of the lawyer to act in a honest
and respectful process. Respect for the process, honesty, objectivity and respect for the court is
considered to be of utmost importance and key qualities for the lawyer in order to in an ethical
and legal manner. The lawyer is considered to be under key obligation to carry out research
regarding crime and resolve the problem with complete legality.
Duty to obey the law