Hamlyn Lectures 2024: Routes to proper professionalism?

Lucidity, morality and accountabilities. 13th November, UCL, Faculty of Laws, London, 6pm

Richard Moorhead, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics, University of Exeter

This lecture will suggest routes to re-invigorating lawyers’ ethics. It will suggest reframing professional thinking so that lucid, practical, meaningful instantiations of integrity and independence match client loyalty. It will ask, does good judgment (and indeed the law) demand a place for morality in professional decision-making? And if so, what kind of morality? And how should uncertainty and risk be managed proportionately and without paternalism? An agenda for professional rule changes, regulatory practice, education, the courts, professional privilege and corporate governance is suggested by the orthodoxies the Post Office Scandal reveals; its victims demand our attention, and this lecture will propose ideas for action.

Chair

James Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, PC was Member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2015 and is now a life peer. He has been a leading campaigner on the Post Office Scandal for many years and sits on the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board

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