 | William F. May - Philosophy - 2001 - 300 pages
...lawyer's duty to his client in the course of defending Queen Caroline on trial before the House of Lords: An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and amongst them, to himself, is his first and only duty; and in performing this duty, he must not regard... | |
 | W. W. Pue, David Sugarman - Law - 2003 - 410 pages
...Europe and North America in the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries (Clarendon, Oxford, 1997), 271. 49 'An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows...and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, amongst them, to himself, is his first and only duty; and in performing this duty he must not regard... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - Law - 2003 - 362 pages
...sentiment can be found in almost any contemporary American examination of professional responsibility: An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...the world, and that person is his client. To save this client by all means and expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, amongst... | |
 | Geoffrey C. Hazard, Angelo Dondi - Law - 2004 - 380 pages
...dropped, but Brougham was strongly criticized for having threatened blackmail.'" Brougham responded: [A]n advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows...the world, and that person is his client. To save the client by all means and expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and amongst... | |
 | Fred Kaufman, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History - Law - 2005 - 377 pages
...ringing declaration of a lawyer's duty made by Henry Brougham, the Queen's attorney general, who said: 'An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows...all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among them, to himself, is his first and only duty; and in performing this duty he must not regard the alarm,... | |
 | Susan D. Carle - Law - 2005 - 441 pages
...eloquently described by Lord Brougham "in his justly celebrated defence of the Queen," when he asserted that "'[a]n advocate ... in the discharge of his duty knows...one person in all the world, and that person is his client."31 Lord Brougham proposed that the lawyer's first and only duty was " [t] o save that client... | |
 | Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Christopher Honeyman - Business & Economics - 2006 - 798 pages
...gain or advantage must be secondary to furthering the client's goals. In the words of Lord Brougham, An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and amongst them to himself, is his first and only duty, (emphasis added)9 While the vision of the lawyer... | |
 | Christine Parker, Adrian Evans - Law - 2007 - 259 pages
...the profession, would hesitate to resort to such a course and fearlessly perform his duty . . . [A] n advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, amongst them, to himself, is his first and only duty; and in performing this duty he must not regard... | |
 | 1870 - 890 pages
...influenced by the inflated language of Lord Brougham, recently quoted to a jury by Recorder Hackett, that " an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in all the world, and that person his client;" that, to save him, he " must not regard the alarm, the torments, the distraction which... | |
 | Political science - 1894 - 740 pages
...advocate in the discharge of his duty knows hut one person, and that person is his client. To save his client by all means and expedients and at all hazards and costs to other persons— and among them himself—is his first and only duty ; and in performing that duty he must not regard the alarms,... | |
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He had before stated to their lordships—but surely of that it was scarcely necessary to remind them—that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in all the world, and that person is his client To save that client by all means... 
