Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Few mental illness treatments are more reviled in the public mind than Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy. However, in reality, ECT is a safe and effective treatment for cases of clinical depression and catatonia that are unresponsive to drug therapy. Also, unlike drugs, ECT has relatively few side eff... More

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories t... More

"Philosophy of Law: An Introduction" provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law, assuming no prior knowledge of either subject.The book is structured around the key issues and themes in philosophy of law: * What is the law? - the major legal theories including realism, posit... More

"Philosophy of Law: An Introduction" provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law, assuming no prior knowledge of either subject.The book is structured around the key issues and themes in philosophy of law: * What is the law? - the major legal theories including realism, posit... More

Legal ethics is often described as an oxymoron or contradiction in terms - lay people find the concept amusing and lawyers can find ethics impossible. The best lawyers are those who have come to grips with their own values and actively seek to improve their ethical practise. This book is designed to... More

What is professional negligence? Who, for that matter, is a "construction professional" and what are their obligations in contract and their obligations in tort? In what circumstances might the difference between the obligations be important? These questions are of crucial importance to contractors,... More

Business world is, to an extent, a reflection of the country’s social and cultural ethos. The unprincipled behaviour among people has become so commonplace that even the corporate world has been affected. It is, therefore, felt that unless companies look after the interests of their stakeholders ... More

The book covers concepts, principles and practices ofbusiness ethics and corporate governance. It highlights criteria for resolvingethical dilemmas. This book will help students to develop clarity, reasoning andanalytical skills for application of ethics in business decisions. The bookoffers focused... More

In this text, Davila asserts that an individual's moral values direct the totality of his or her interrelationships, define his or her politics, and determine socio-political relations. Featured are esays on abortion, marriage, minorities, energy, lying, dying, and other moral concerns that have pol... More

Exposé of the legal industry, both lawyers and judges. An aid to Pro Se litigants in the more common disciplines of law.... More

This is Book Two ("Fraud and the Serious Fraud Office") in the series 'Fraud Law', following Book One ("Serious Fraud and Current Issues"), and deals with legal issues such as the right to silence of a suspect. The law of Germany, France and New York and Illinois is discussed and compared with Engli... More

"The Private Investigator's Legal Manual" is written especially for California private investigators and the attorneys who hire and represent them. This is the first and only complete source for answers to the often tricky and difficult legal issues unique to California investigators. The 300+ page... More

Ethics and regulation have become catchwords of the late 1990s, yet relatively little has been written about the ethical discourse and regulation of the legal professions in England and Wales. This book represents the first attempt to subject the ethical discourse of the English legal professions to... More