Ethical Consideration - Law Dictionary Search Results
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ethical consideration : a recommendation made in the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility of what would or would not be ethical behavior by a lawyer under specified circumstances compare disciplinary rule ...
disciplinary rule
disciplinary rule : a rule that is set out in the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility and whose violation may result in disciplinary action against the violating lawyer compare ethical consideration ...
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Reasonableness
Reasonableness, 'reasonableness' as the test of validity is not the courts own standard of reasonableness as it might conceive it in a given situation. A thing is not unreasonable in the legal sense merely because the court thinks it is unwise. Different contexts in which the operative of 'reasonableness' as test of validity operates must be kept distinguished. Some phrases which pass from one branch of law to another carry over with them meanings that may be inapposite in the changed context. Some such thing has happened to the words 'reasonable', 'reasonableness' etc. The reasonableness in administrative law must distinguish between proper use and improper abuse of power. The administrative law test of 'reasonableness' as the touchstone of validity of the impugned resolutions is different from the test of the 'reasonable man' familiar to the law of torts, whom English law figuratively identifies as the 'man on the Clapham omnibus'. In the latter case the standards of the 'reasonable ...
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