Independent Representation: North Carolina’s Rules for Professional Conduct - The Gap They Have Created and the Need for Protection in the Representation of Independent Fact Witnesses

This chapter analyzes and recommends federal corporate governance enhancements that should be implemented. These enhancements, which should be adopted in a measured and directed manner, are necessary to remediate certain deficiencies that currently exist. Consistent therewith, this chapter focuses on several important matters that merit attention, including the undue deference by federal courts to state law, the appropriate application of federal law to tactics undertaken in tender offers, the need for a federal statute encompassing insider trading, and the propriety of more vigorous oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission (such as with respect to the “current” disclosure regime, the SEC’s Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys, and the Commission’s neglecting at times to invoke its statutory resources). Thus, the analysis set forth in this chapter identifies significant deficiencies that currently exist and recommends measures that should be implemented on the federal level to enhance corporate governance standards.

Monitoring Compliance with Professional Guidance. A Discussion Paper prepared by the Compliance/Peer Review Working Party of the Professional Affairs Board

British Actuarial Journal ◽

10.1017/s1357321700001859 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 365-431

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Financial Services ◽

Working Party ◽

Professional Conduct ◽

Discussion Paper ◽

Professional Guidance

ABSTRACTThis is a discussion paper prepared by the Compliance/Peer Review Working Party of the Professional Affairs Board. It considers the monitoring of compliance with the professional conduct standard and guidance notes, how this is being done, and whether changes need to be made to the monitoring in the light of on-going changes to the regulation of financial services.

Code of Professional Conduct

British Journal of Occupational Therapy ◽

10.1177/030802269005300406 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 143-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Keyword(s):

Professional Conduct ◽

Code Of Professional Conduct

New codes of professional conduct come into effect

Veterinary Record ◽

10.1136/vr.e2784 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 170 (16) ◽

pp. 401-401

Keyword(s):

Professional Conduct ◽

New Codes

Thematic analysis of the new ACM Code of Ethics and professional conduct

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society ◽

10.1145/181900.181903 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 21-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. Dianne Martin ◽

David H. Martin

Keyword(s):

Thematic Analysis ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Professional Conduct

Social media and social change lawyering: influencing change and silencing dissent

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x18803378 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 169 (1) ◽

pp. 65-73

Author(s):

Naomi Sayers

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Change ◽

Legal System ◽

Media Use ◽

Legal Profession ◽

Upper Canada ◽

Professional Conduct ◽

Positive Approach ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

The Law

The Law Society of Ontario (formerly, the Law Society of Upper Canada) oversees the legal profession in Ontario, Canada, through The Rules of Professional Conduct (‘Rules’). All future lawyers and paralegals must adhere to the Rules. The Law Society sometimes provides guidance on sample policies informed by the Rules. In this article, the author closely examines the Law Society’s guidance on social media. The author argues that this guidance fails to understand how the Rules regulate experiences out of the legal profession and fails to see the positive possibilities of social media to influence social change, especially in ways that conflict with the colonial legal system. The author concludes that the Law Society must take a positive approach and provide some guidance for the legal profession on their social media use, especially around critiquing the colonial legal system. This positive approach is essential to avoid duplicating the systems and structures that perpetuate disadvantage in marginalized communities.

Ethical behaviour of physicians and psychologists: similarities and differences

Journal of Medical Ethics ◽

10.1136/medethics-2016-103902 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 97-100

Author(s):

Michall Ferencz Kaddari ◽

Meni Koslowsky ◽

Michael A Weingarten

Keyword(s):

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

Family Physicians ◽

Clinical Psychologists ◽

Dual Relationships ◽

Ethical Behaviour ◽

Professional Conduct ◽

Personal Problems ◽

Ethical Intention ◽

Coping Patterns ◽

Ethical Intent

ObjectiveTo compare the coping patterns of physicians and clinical psychologists when confronted with clinical ethical dilemmas and to explore consistency across different dilemmas.Population88 clinical psychologists and 149 family physicians in Israel.MethodSix dilemmas representing different ethical domains were selected from the literature. Vignettes were composed for each dilemma, and seven possible behavioural responses for each were proposed, scaled from most to least ethical. The vignettes were presented to both family physicians and clinical psychologists.ResultsPsychologists’ aggregated mean ethical intention score, as compared with the physicians, was found to be significantly higher (F(6, 232)=22.44, p<0.001, η2=0.37). Psychologists showed higher ethical intent for two dilemmas: issues of payment (they would continue treating a non-paying patient while physicians would not) and dual relationships (they would avoid treating the son of a colleague). In the other four vignettes, psychologists and physicians responded in much the same way. The highest ethical intent scores for both psychologists and physicians were for confidentiality and a colleague’s inappropriate practice due to personal problems.ConclusionsResponses to the dilemmas by physicians and psychologists can be categorised into two groups: (1) similar behaviours on the part of both professions when confronting dilemmas concerning confidentiality, inappropriate practice due to personal problems, improper professional conduct and academic issues and (2) different behaviours when confronting either payment issues or dual relationships.