This event is organised by the UCL Centre for Ethics & Law

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A report says the profession’s reputation is at risk when acting for clients with unexplained wealth and abusive litigators

Professor Stephen Mayson discusses what it should mean for lawyers to fulfil their professional duty to act in the best interests of their clients.

Having a professional identity as a young lawyer that does not align with the values of your law firm could turn “wellbeing issues into serious health problems”, a leading legal academic has warned.

In-house solicitors have been pressured to misuse legal professional privilege as a way to suppress the proper disclosure of information, the SRA has said.

A judge’s comments on the lack of recourse against an unregulated costs draftsman should focus minds on this hole in legal regulation, the Association of Costs Lawyers has argued.

Lawyers seem to have forgotten that the public interest trumps the client interest and this needs to change, Professor Stephen Mayson has argued.

The leading figure on legal ethics in the UK has called for the creation of an independent commission charged with improving “honesty, integrity and effectiveness in the use of law”.

Be in no doubt that yesterday marked the deepest crisis that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has ever faced. It needs to show humility and accountability.

Once, this was not a difficult question to answer.  When I became a barrister in 1977, my answer would have been immediate and unequivocal.  Like many of my generation, I was the first in the famil…

These lectures will argue it is time to change the way lawyers think and behave, and how courts, clients, and regulators set their expectations. You can now book tickets for Exeter, Leeds, or London.