FriedCharles, ‘The Lawyer as Friend: The moral foundations of the lawyer-client relationship’ (1976) 85Yale Law Journal1060.
4.
Rule 23 A62–72 Revised Professional Conduct and Practice Rules 1995 (NSW). See also Rule 29 of the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules drafted by the Law Council of Australia which replicates these duties for solicitors, to be in force across Australia soon.
5.
CowderyNicholas, Ethics and the Role of a Prosecutor (NSW, 1997) 32.
6.
See Prosecution Policy and Guidelines of the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, issued pursuant to s 13 of Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1986 (NSW).
7.
Price v Ferris (1994) 34 NSWLR 704, 707 (Kirby P).
8.
JacksonJohn, ‘The Ethical Implications of the Enhanced Role of the Public Prosecutor’ (2006) 9(1) Legal Ethics35, 37.
9.
What he calls ‘moral pluck’. SimonWilliam, ‘Moral Pluck: Legal Ethics in popular culture’ (2001) 101Columbia Law Review422, 429.
10.
Indeed, Richard wins the case against his hero in a courtroom scene remarkably like another famous courtroom drama moment, in A Few Good Men, where the protagonist badgers the witness into telling the truth. In that case, the lawyer breaks a number of ethical rules of conduct in order to achieve a ‘just’ outcome.
