Module Descriptors
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND REGULATION
LAWS70675
Key Facts
Health, Education, Policing and Sciences
Level 7
1 credits
Contact
Leader: Natasha Thomas
Email: natasha.thomas@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities:
Independent Study Hours:
Total Learning Hours:
Pattern of Delivery
- Occurrence B, Stoke Campus, PG Semester 1 to PG Semester 2
Sites
- Stoke Campus
Assessment
- EXAMINATION - UNSEEN IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Resources
Lecture and workshop materials, Blackboard and Library resources
Module Texts
Solicitors Professional Conduct manual and on-line resources
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Indicative Content
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
1. Rule 1
2. practitioner skills
3. client relations, client care, costs
4. legal and complex issues/ conflicts of interest
5. client confidentiality and disclosure
6. professional undertakings
7. professional conduct requirements - solicitor and the court
8. culture, diversity and disability
THE PROFESSION
1. practising certificates and indemnity insurance
2. in-house practice, non-commercial advice
3. business management, solicitors, offices, sole principals, partnerships and incorporation
4. third parties
MONEY LAUNDERING
1. international context
2. suspicion of money laundering practice
FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. financial services regulation
2. regulatory framework
3. financial services issues
4. financial services provisions
5. research; practitioner and primary sources
1. Rule 1
2. practitioner skills
3. client relations, client care, costs
4. legal and complex issues/ conflicts of interest
5. client confidentiality and disclosure
6. professional undertakings
7. professional conduct requirements - solicitor and the court
8. culture, diversity and disability
THE PROFESSION
1. practising certificates and indemnity insurance
2. in-house practice, non-commercial advice
3. business management, solicitors, offices, sole principals, partnerships and incorporation
4. third parties
MONEY LAUNDERING
1. international context
2. suspicion of money laundering practice
FINANCIAL SERVICES
1. financial services regulation
2. regulatory framework
3. financial services issues
4. financial services provisions
5. research; practitioner and primary sources
Module Learning Strategies
Professional Conduct and Regulation is delivered pervasively throughout the lectures and workshops during stage 1 of the course and is also integrated within stage 2. Additionally, for students following a blended-learning mode of delivery there will be on-line activities.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Assessment by a 2.5 hour written discrete assessment. It is also assessed within each core practice area and accounts for 5% of the marks awarded in each core practice area.
Web Descriptor
The Solicitors Regulation Autority code of conduct is taught throughout the course in all of the modules to ensure students thoroughly understand the standards expected of legal professionals and how they apply to commonly encountered situations. Students are equipped to recognise and act appropriately when faced with ethical and professional conduct dilemmas and issues.