Ethics

A friend recently observed that lawyers (like many other professions) have the potential to apply their work skills to do good for the community. He noted that practitioners of the legal...Read more

Ethics and Compliance tasks at companies are often channelled through a compliance officer and a centralized compliance team. However, more and more activities are arising that fall in the Ethics...Read more

Once it is suggested that a lawyer or an organisation that they work for is unethical, there is little that can be done to stop the inevitable tide of censure...Read more

A lawyer’s philosophy of law will inevitably reflect a philosophy of lawyering. Although there are many schools of legal philosophy and a wide divergence of views, even among those who...Read more

Fraud is an intrinsic wrong that has an infinite variety of forms. The problem of fraud is endemic to a market economy. Common law legal and equitable doctrines have been...Read more

It may be interesting to set out an overview and comparison of the private sector whistleblower protections in Australia and Great Britain. Since the British regime had been in place...Read more

I will discuss two concepts; the rule of law and populism. Specifically, I want to look at the effect of one on the other. I should point out that these...Read more

There is great unpredictability in the current geopolitical, economic and emotional climate globally and trying to find conviction in such times is fraught with variables which seem untraversable. However, Intellectual...Read more

The emergency context resulting from the spread of Covid-19, which has involved all continents and national states, has led to the need, in democratic states, of adopting all means and...Read more

This article discusses the corporate attorney-client privilege as applied in the United States. As in the United States, other common law countries apply the privilege to in-house counsel. The attorney-client...Read more