Topic Research Guides: Ethics

Texts about ethics are shelved at 174.3 (Level 4), and in the Law Library (Level 3) 340.023 and the call  number for the area of law to which it relates (ie, ethics related to evidence are at 345.5)

Subject terms to search in the catalogue include:
Legal ethics; Attorney and client; Lawyers -- Discipline; Practice of Law - Australia; Professional Ethics; Procedure (Law) - Australia; Professional Ethics Lawyers; Lawyers -- Professional Ethics

Major texts in this area (regular editions being released - check the catalogue for details of the current edition.

• Lawyers' professional responsibility / G.E. Dal Pont
• Ethics and legal professionalism in Australia / Paula Baron, Lillian Corbin

Halsbury's Laws of Australia - [250] — Legal Practitioners

The Laws of Australia - [27.3] — Legal Practitioners

Lawyers Practice Manual WA

The College of Law Practice Papers WA

Legal Services Council (LSC) and the Commissioner for Uniform Services Regulation guidelines and directions under the Uniform Law and Uniform Rules. 

Some key journals in this area include:

• Journal of Equity
  
• Journal of Law, Business & Ethics
• Trusts and Trustees

Indexes:

• Westlaw Australia - Content Type: Secondary Sources - Index to Australian Cases and Journals
• Lexis Advance - CaseBase - Index to Australian cases and journals
• Westlaw Classic - Index to UK journals

Full text Journals:

• Lexis Advance 
• Westlaw Australia
• Informit
• Gale Academic OneFile
• HeinOnline
• Oxford Reports on International Law
• ProQuest
• Westlaw Classic
• Westlaw UK

Uniform Law for Western Australia

Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (Vic) - Navigate to Schedule 1 — Legal Profession Uniform Law

Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015 (NSW)

Legal Profession Uniform Admission Rules 2015 (NSW)

Law Council of Australia

Law Society of Western Australia

Legal Practice Board

Cloud Computing Practice Note - Office of the Legal Services Commissioner

Ethical and Practice Guidelines - The Law Society of Western Australia

A Government Lawyer’s Guide to Rules on Ethical Issues - Law Society of NSW

Information Barrier Guidelines - Law Society of Western Australia

Information Barrier Guidelines Summary - Law Institute Victoria

Law Institute Victoria Ethics Committee Rulings

Statement of Prosecution Policy and Guidelines - Director of Public Prosecutions (WA)

Lexis Advance

Westlaw Australia

Topic: 

Government lawyers, both federal and state, face particular ethical challenges

Step 1:  Identify search words

Step 2:  Identify synonyms

Step 3:   Create search strings

3.1  Create search strings for each search word:  
       commonwealth OR crown OR federal OR state) /3 government
       barrister OR lawyer OR legal OR prosecutor OR solicitor
       challenge OR ethic! OR guideline OR rule

3.2  Create search string
       (((commonwealth OR crown OR federal OR state) /3 government) /5 (barrister OR lawyer OR legal OR solicitor)) /75 (challenge OR ethic! OR guideline OR rule)

3.3  Modify search string
       ((crown OR government) /5 (barrister OR lawyer OR legal OR prosecutor OR solicitor)) /75 (challeng! OR ethic! OR guide! OR rule!)

Step 4:   Identify relevant research material

Barker, Michael, 'What Makes a Good Government Lawyer' (Speech, Essentials for Government Lawyers, Australian Government Solicitors, 16 November 2010) <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/FedJSchol/2010/26.html>

Dillon, Andrew, 'Ethical Obligations of the Government Lawyer' (2012) 226 Ethos 20, <https://search-informit-com-au.libproxy.murdoch.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=049789855216786;res=IELHSS>