LAWS398-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Legal Ethics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

An introduction to ethical theories and their applicability to legal practice. The concept of a profession and the duties and responsibilities of lawyers.

Restrictions

LAWS370 (prior to 2006), LAWS399 (prior to 2006)

Co-requisites

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Take-Home Test 30 Apr 2024 35%
Final Examination 65%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

R, Scragg; The Ethical Lawyer ; Thomson Reuters, 2018.

Webb, et al; Ethics, professional responsibility and the lawyer ; 3rd edition; LexisNexis, 2016.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $893.00

International fee $4,663.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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