| Lincoln Caplan - Business & Economics - 1994 - 370 pages
...with total commitment. The classic statement of this view was made by Lord Henry Brougham in 1820: "An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows...in all the world, and that person is his client." Few lawyers think much about this logic day-to-day, but when they contemplate it, many routinely apply... | |
| Gary J. Jacobsohn, Susan Dunn - Political Science - 1996 - 156 pages
...century, it can be found in almost any contemporary American examination of professional responsibility: 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... | |
| Joseph G. Allegretti - Law - 1996 - 156 pages
...client." The hired gun mentality is expressed in a famous quotation from Lord Brougham in the 1820s: "[A]n advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in the world, and that person is his client. To save that client by all means and expedients, and at all... | |
| Mark A. Hall - Medical - 1997 - 326 pages
...occurred in Lord Brougham's 1820 defense of Queen Caroline against King George IV's charge of adultery: "An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows...client. To save that client by all means and expedients, ... he must not regard the alarm, the torments, the destruction which he may bring upon others. Separating... | |
| Helen Stacy, Michael Lavarch - Adversary system (Law) - 1999 - 196 pages
...often-quoted rhetoric seems uniquely appropriate in the context of criminal defence. 'An advocate . . . knows but one person in all the world, and that person...and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, amongst them, to himself, is his first and only duty'." Thesis 5: For similar reasons, non-accountable... | |
| William H. Fortune, Richard H. Underwood, Edward J. Imwinkelried - Law - 2001 - 818 pages
...In his defense of Queen Caroline in 1820, Lord Brougham reportedly reminded the House of Lords that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons . . . is his first and only duty.2 '' Poly Software Intl. Inc. v. Yu Su, 880 F. Supp. 1487, 1491-1494... | |
| David Kessler - Business & Economics - 2001 - 518 pages
...back almost two centuries, to Caroline of Brunswick's battle for the right to become Queen of England. 'An advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows...in all the world, and that person is his client," declared the barrister who defended her despite a widespread belief that she was guilty of adultery.... | |
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