Introduction
Occupations develop ideas about the right way to do the work they do. In the case of lawyers, this involves reconciling some apparently incompatible aspirations. A popular view is that they profess virtue, for example acting with integrity, while making money from helping murderers, tax avoiders or polluters to evade justice.
This chapter deals with the issue of how that can be justified. It will explain how moral ambiguity is intrinsic to the job that lawyers do by considering the nature of the lawyer’s role.Later in the chapter the issue of whether the professional ethics of lawyers can or should be consistent with principles of ‘ordinary morality’ is considered. These issues are approached by exploring the implications of the commitment to the ‘rule of law’. This shapes the roles of judges and lawyers in the Western democracies. It takes on a particular character in an adversarial system. The chapter examines the so-called ‘standard conception’ of the lawyer’s role, together with criticisms of its moral orientation. It concludes with a defence of how the role of lawyer is interpreted in England and Wales.
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