TITLE: Ethics In Legal Practice

INTRODUCTION: The legal profession, are those people directly related with the law such as lawyers, justices and judges
are persons who have been tasked with a great responsibility of upholding justice and interpreting the provisions of the
law. Such deemed persons are assumed to have a good standing amongst people and must have good moral character.
With these requirements, the question of ethics comes into the picture. Does ethics in legal practice help shape the
profession? According to Potter Stewart, “ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and
what is right to do”. Basically, ethics are the moral principles that guide the activity of persons.
Legal practice has a number of ethical obligations referring to the client and the duties of court, a breach in
either one of them can conclude to civil actions filed against to those who are liable for such breach. Such obligations
are found in the Code of Professional Responsibility and the Canons of Professional Ethics in the Philippines. Such basic
principles are the duty of lawyers to have a respectful attitude upon the courts and that a lawyer shall not engage in
unlawful, dishonest, immoral or deceitful conduct.
This research is conducted to have a knowledge on what the effect of ethics brings to the legal practice, what
obligations do persons on legal practice have, what liabilities may arise if these ethical obligations are not observed and
how does ethics play a role in the shaping of the legal practice.

Reference: http://www.paclii.org/journals/fJSPL/vol06/8.shtml
https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/ethics
http://www.chanrobles.com/canonsofprofessionalethics.htm#.W45eTugzaUk
http://www.chanrobles.com/codeofprofessionalresponsibility.html#.W45eUOgzaUk

KEY RESEARCH QUESTION:

How will your research enrich existing legal research in this specific area of study?
What major contribution can this research give in the legal field?
Why is your research useful?
What methodology or theoretical framework will you use?
How will you conduct your research?
How long will it take you to complete your research?
How does ethics enrich the legal practice?
what are the consequences one must face if his or her ethical obligations are not observed?
What are these ethical obligations one must have in legal practice?
How does this research help the field of legal practice?
As a whole what would happen if legal ethics is foregone?
Are there any contradicting issues with regards to ethics in legal practice?
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE: [LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE]

This chapter will discuss about legal ethics, researches and theories pertaining to the application of
legal ethics in practice. This includes an introductory on the effects of ethics in legal practice.
METHODOLOGY: This chapter will discuss first the methods in the research design. The second section
will tackle about the specificities on the respondents, followed by the research instrument that will be
needed. The fourth section will also discuss the data collection procedures, given the aforementioned
elements, and will be followed by the statistical data analysis.

OUTLINE OF TIMESCALE:
On August 24 our group had a meeting on how to best tackle the chosen topic which is “Ethics in Legal Practice”. We
brainstormed about ideas and means on how to present our Legal Research Proposal.
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On September 7 we had our final revision on our legal research proposal

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