Coming Soon Hamlyn Lectures 2024: Frail Professionalism? Lawyers Ethics after the Post Office and Other Cases
Hamlyn Lectures 2024: Frail Professionalism? Lawyers Ethics after the Post Office and Other Cases

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Hamlyn Lectures 2024: Frail Professionalism? Lawyers Ethics after the Post Office and Other Cases

By Richard Moorhead
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available August 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009695220
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Bad lawyering has come under increasing focus though NDAs, SLAPPs, the banking crisis, and latterly the UK's Post Office Scandal, an extraordinary legal scandal spanning more than 20 years that ruined thousands of lives. This book examines the commercial, cultural, legal, and psychological drivers of ethical failure weaving them together with case studies in a compelling account of what is wrong with lawyers' ethics. Rather than concentrating on a few bad apples, it shows how deep-seated traditions, psychological frailties, the complacency and aggression of well-paid lawyers, and the pragmatism, cynicism, and hubris of organisations combines to pollute decision-making and weaken the rule of law. Be it through awful orthodoxies or legality illusions, it shows how a lawyer's naturally uncomfortable relationship with truth and justice can become improper or even criminal.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The post office scandal
3. What the Bates case suggested
4. A history of aggressive legal offence
5. Post office's aggressive legal defence
6. How unreliable gods and their fearless logics drive ethical failure
7. How lawyering can pollute institutions
8. Routes back to proper professionalism
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