Legal services regulators must do more to strengthen lawyers’ ethical standards, the Legal Services Board (LSB) hassaid,setting outnewexpectationsdesigned to reinforce lawyers’role in upholding the rule of law. Regulators willneed toput“professional ethical duties” at the heart of howlawyersare expected to behave.The LSBhasconfirmed thatwhere duties conflict,lawyers mustprioritisetheir duties tothe court and the rule of lawovertheir duty to...

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