Updated for the 2025 Exams

What this package includes:

  • Audio Courses
  • Exam Study Guide
  • Exam Outline
  • Secondary Materials

What this package does not include:

  • End of Chapter Quizzes
  • Sample Exam Model Answer Frameworks
  • Lecture Handouts

Course curriculum

  • 1
    Introduction to the Course
    • Introduction
  • 2
    Resources
  • 3
    Topic 1: The Legal Profession and Professionalism
    • 1.1: Introduction
    • 1.2: Sources
    • 1.3: Schools of Thought
    • 1.4: What it Means to be an Ethical Lawyer
  • 4
    Topic 2: The Regulation of Lawyers and the Legal Profession
    • 2.1: Introduction
    • 2.2: Structure of Self Regulation
    • 2.3: DisciplInary Proceedings
    • 2.4: External Regulation
  • 5
    Topic 3: Competence and Quality of Service
    • 3.1: Competence and Quality of Service
  • 6
    Topic 4: Issues in Regulation
    • 4.1: Good Character
  • 7
    Topic 5: The Lawyer-Client Relationship
    • 5.1: Introduction
    • 5.2: Formation
    • 5.2.1: Advertising, Fee Sharing, and Solicitation
    • 5.2.2: Choice of Client
    • 5.2.3: Accessibility of Legal Services
    • 5.3: Termination
  • 8
    Topic 6: Client Confidence
    • 6.1: Client Confidence
    • 6.3: Exceptions to Client Confidentiality
    • 6.2: Litigation Privilege
  • 9
    Topic 7: The Duty of Loyalty and Conflicts of Interests
    • 7.1: Loyalty
  • 10
    Topic 8: Client-Client Conflicts
    • 8: Introduction
    • 8.1: Multiple Clients
    • 8.2: Duties to Former Clients
    • 8.3: Current Client Conflicts
    • 8.4: Former Client Conflicts
  • 11
    Topic 9: Lawyer-Client Conflicts
    • 9.1: Lawyer Client Conflict
  • 12
    Topic 10: The Adversary System and Lawyers as Advocates
    • 10.1: Introduction
    • 10.2: Ethics Pre-trial
    • 10.3: Ethics in Trial
    • 10.4: Civility
  • 13
    Topic 11: Ethics and Alternative Dispute Resolution
    • 11.1: Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • 14
    Topic 12: Ethics and the Practice of Criminal Law
    • 12.1: Introduction
    • 12.2: Ethical Duty of the Crown
    • 12.3: Ethical Duties of Officers of the Court
    • 12.4: Defence Counsel
    • 12.4.1: Defending a Guilty Client
    • 12.4.2 Taking custody and Control of Real Evidence
    • 12.4.3: Negotiating a Guilty Plea and Sentence
    • 12.4.4: The Confession
    • 12.4.5: Perjury
    • 12.4.6: Some Practical Considerations for Defence Counsel
  • 15
    Topic 13: Lawyers in Organizational Settings: Corporate Counsel
    • 13.1: Corporate Counsel
  • 16
    Topic 14: Government Lawyers
    • 14.1: Government Counsel
  • 17
    Topic 15: Access to Justice
    • 15.1: Access to Justice
  • 18
    Required Readings
    • BARREAU DU NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK c. RYAN
    • Blank c. canada (ministre de la Justice)
    • Conflicted Identities: The Battle over the Duty of Loyalty in Canada
    • DESPUTEAUX v. ÉDITIONS CHOUETTE
    • Elements of Professionalism
    • Final Report of the Family Justice Working Group of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters
    • Model Rules of Professional Conduct- Preamble & Scope
    • Protecting the Public
    • Sustainable Professionalism
    • Task Force on the Independence of the Legal Profession
    • The ‘Good’ Criminal Law Barrister
    • THE NEGOTIATOR AS PROFESSIONAL: UNDERSTANDING THE COMPETING INTERESTS OF A REPRESENTATIVE NEGOTIATOR
  • 19
    Next Steps
    • Ethics conclusion
    • NCA Professional Responsibility Practice Exam
    • Practice Questions

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