ABSTRACT
LEGAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (1995) Ross Cranston (ed) 1995, Oxford: Clarendon (ISBN 0-19-825931-X) 229 pp This book is a collection of papers given at the 1993 conference of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, with two additional chapters contributed by Michael Brindle QC and Guy Dehn, and by Derek Morgan. The opening chapter on ‘Legal ethics and professional responsibility’ is by the editor Professor Ross Cranston QC, who subsequently has been appointed Solicitor General. Other contributors, from Britain and the US, include several judicial officers and legal practitioners as well as legal academics. They represent a healthy variety of viewpoints on a vexed topic which, despite its importance and for all the spoken and written attention it gets, is rarely analysed and discussed with sufficient clarity. The book is a timely and, one must say, rather thought-provoking addition to the growing literature, both scholarly and professional, on the ethical obligations and professional responsibilities of lawyers and judges.
