Ethics MCQs

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According to Parker

  • A. Something innate that you are born with
  • B. Something you develop by knowing and consistently following through on your ethical character
  • C. Discovered by making hard choices in difficult situations that expose your virtues (which are equivalent to "gut instincts")
  • D. Something that you learn from others
  • Correct Answer: Option B

The circumstances that give rise to breaches of duty to the court are essentially infinite.

  • A. True
  • B. False
  • Correct Answer: Option A

In Duncan Webb’s guest lecture, what did he say was the best description of the typical lawyer?

  • A. Deal-maker
  • B. Hired gun
  • C. Lawyer-statesman
  • D. Fearless advocate
  • Correct Answer: Option A

Webb et al believe that public interest law practices, in which lawyers associate themselves with a particular cause and provide free or discounted legal representation to further that cause:

  • A. Would run counter to the need for independence required of lawyers in New Zealand
  • B. Should be compulsory to fulfill the public service requirement of professionalism
  • C. Would overlap with the functions of Community Law Centres and should be discouraged
  • Correct Answer: Option A

With respect to using the threat of bringing criminal charges in order to pressure an opposing client to pay money in settlement,

  • A. The applicable Rules of Conduct and Client Care use the same legal test(s) as does the criminal offence of blackmail
  • B. The applicable Rules of Conduct and Client Care give the lawyer fewer defences than does the criminal offence of blackmail
  • C. There are no Rules of Conduct and Client Care that apply to threatening to bring criminal charges in order to pressure an opposing client to pay money in settlement
  • Correct Answer: Option B

Lawyers are required to honour all undertakings:

  • A. That were made by the lawyer or by the client
  • B. That were made by the lawyer or by other members of the lawyer's practice
  • C. Unless circumstances have changed radically
  • D. All of the above
  • Correct Answer: Option B

The fact that a client instructed their lawyer to take an action that constituted breach of a professional rule is not a complete defence, but it will result in lesser punishment than if the client had not been involved.

  • A. True
  • B. False
  • Correct Answer: Option B

Although the purpose of the Lawyers Complaints Service is to protect the public, if the person complaining about a lawyer to a Standards Committee decides to withdraw the complaint and states that they have not been injured by the lawyer’s behaviour, the Standards Committee will always discontinue the proceeding.

  • A. True
  • B. False
  • Correct Answer: Option B

With respect to the duties of defence counsel and prosecuting counsel:

  • A. Both counsel must act impartially at all times, due to the lawyer's duty to uphold the rule of law
  • B. Both counsel must regard only the interests of their own client at all times, due to the nature of the adversary system
  • C. Both of the above
  • D. None of the above
  • Correct Answer: Option D

Misbehaviour in a lawyer’s private life (ie which is unconnected with the provision of regulated services by the lawyer):

  • A. Can constitute misconduct
  • B. Can constitute unsatisfactory conduct
  • C. Both of the above
  • D. None of the above
  • Correct Answer: Option A