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CJ Launches a New Book on Ethics for Lawyers 
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 09:00 PM

Lawyers in Singapore will now have a manual to guide them through the many ethical issues that they will inevitably face in their professional life. Ethics and Professional Responsibility: A Code for the Advocate and Solicitor, by Dr Jeffrey Pinsler, is a work that was specially commissioned by the Honourable the Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong. This is the first publication by Academy Publishing, a new division of the Singapore Academy of Law.

Dr Pinsler, Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore took just one year to review the various rules and principles of legal professional conduct to compile the code and complete the book.

CJ Chan who launched the book today said, “In view of the long-standing ethical problems faced by the legal profession, and in particular by a section of the Bar currently, it seemed somehow odd to me that we did not have a convenient and accessible source, such as a code, of the principles of professional ethics and conduct that our lawyers have to follow and live by everyday of their professional lives.”

“Each practitioner should have a copy of this book on his table at all times to remind him of the high ethical standards the profession demands from him.”
To raise the standard of legal knowledge and practice of our future lawyers, the Academy will be presenting newly admitted advocates and solicitors at the coming Mass Call on 26 May 2007 with a complimentary copy of the book to encourage them to start their careers as ethical and responsible lawyers.