Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics reimagining the profession

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global continental shifts to a new governance paradigm in lawyer regulation and consumer protection : riding the wave / Judith L. Maute -- Our common future : the imperative for contextual ethics in a connected world / Vivien Holmes and Simon Rice -- The emperor's new clothes : from Atticus Finch to Denny Crane / Paula Baron -- Doing good by stealth : professional ethics and moral choices in the verdict and regarding Henry / Rachel Spencer -- Solicitors as imagined masculine, family mediators as fictive feminine and the hybridization of divorce solicitors / Lisa Webley -- Stein's ethic of care : an alternative perspective to reflections on women lawyering / Elizabeth Gachenga -- Gender, ethics and the discretion not to prosecute in the "interests of justice" under the Rome statute for the International Criminal Court / Tina Dolgopol -- Exploring the potential of contextual ethics in mediation / Rachael Field -- Nefarious conduct and the "fit and proper person" test / Duncan Webb -- Legal ethics and regulatory legitimacy : regulating lawyers for personal misconduct / Alice Woolley -- The problem of mental ill-health in the profession and a suggested solution / Michelle Sharp.