This is a book of research and policy aimed at raising ethical standards in criminal justice practice. Around the world, corruption continues to undermine the rule of law and the application of due process rights. Misconduct by criminal justice professionals challenges democratic authority and the equality and freedom of ordinary citizens. There is an urgent need for academics, advocates and policymakers to speak with one voice in articulating universal ethical standards and, most importantly, in prescribing systems and techniques that must be in place for criminal justice to be genuinely accountable and as free from misconduct as possible. The focus of the book is on the core components of the criminal justice system - police, courts and corrections - and the core groups within this system: sworn police officers; judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers; and custodial and community correctional officers. By using quality research and policy analysis of these core components Professor Prenzler formulates a basic checklist that can be used to assess the ethical quality and accountability of the criminal justice system in any jurisdiction.

The Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct are the professional responsibility rules of conduct for attorneys in Michigan. These mandatory standards of attorney ethics assist lawyers in making proper decisions in the representation of past, current, and future clients. This Quick Desk Reference Edition of the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct is updated through January 1, 2014 and contains both the rules and full commentary, as published by the Michigan Supreme Court.

In the early part of 2007 The Law Society of Kenya, through the Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector Reform Programme ("GJLOS") of Kenya, undertook a review of the disciplinary machinery of the legal profession. This work, conducted by a team of consultants, was intended, inter alia, to review progress since the 2002 "Review of the Effectiveness of the Disciplinary Committee of The Law Society of Kenya and the Complaints Commission" by Mr. Mark Stobbs of the International Bar Association. This book is the result. Although the purpose of the project was to identify means of strengthening the disciplinary processes of the Kenya bar, its application is broader. There are generic and universal principles of good practice which are applicable in all countries and in more professions than just the legal profession. One difficulty faced by the consultants was to identify processes that reflected good practice and also were workable in the environment in which they were placed. This involved consideration of social, political and economic aspects of the environment. One of the major challenges facing the world today is the relative fragility of democracy, transparency, and the rule of law in many countries. This report, though intended for the benefit of Kenya, is a rich resource for other countries that might wish to review the disciplinary mechanisms for their legal professions, or other learned professions.

My Wife's Death I see my self as saving patients lives and money. What that means to me is passing on my first hand experience of the malpractice death of my wife on July 19, 2004, the resulting malpractice lawsuit suit and years of hard research on our health care system. My wife was an outstanding lady. She was the first woman bank vice president in Lubbock, Texas . Her death devastated me and my son and his family to this day. In fact she was rocking one of his two daughters two nights before she went into hospital. Her death haunts me even more me because it was preventable A preventable infection. I blindly trusted the health care system and was betrayed.

The Freedom of the Will is a classic work by Christian pastor and writer Jonathan Edwards. Published in 1754 as a response to the teaching of Arminian pastor Daniel Whitby, the book examines the nature of mankind's will and the providential will of God. Starting with Romans 9:16, "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy" Edwards argues for a traditional Calvinistic view of the work of salvation. Alacrity Press is proud to republish this Christian classic that is as relevant today as when it was first published.

Current important events in the U.S. legal profession and legal ethics, with up-to-the-minute research and rules, are explored by Tulane law students from an advanced ethics seminar of spring 2010 and several independent study papers. The collection is edited by Tulane legal ethics professor Steven Alan Childress, and he surveys the big stories of 2009-2010 in his Foreword. Purchase of this book benefits Tulane PILF, a nonprofit student group which funds public interest and indigent client representations throughout the country. Topics include social networking, "friending," and internet advertising (and very recent court decisions about these areas); ancillary businesses controlled by lawyers, particularly under the LMRDA as interpreted by the Obama administration; the Supreme Court's 2009 decision on judicial campaign finance, and its recent aftermath along with policies of judicial recusal and elections; and ethics and professionalism in settlement negotiations.

Optometry students and optometrists will find this book very useful in serving as a quick reference of how optometry and law interrelated in an optometric practice; therefore, providing the optometry students and optometrists an essential knowledge in optometry law for protection against a malpractice lawsuit. Generally, it is easier to prevent a malpractice lawsuit than to defend it.

In this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally-in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if given control of other forms of private property, would also debase the values of those forms and use them according to its own interests.

Kirchliche Hochschulen unterliegen als Bildungseinrichtungen in nicht-staatlicher Tragerschaft sowohl kirchlichen als auch staatlichen Regelungen. Auch fur theologische Fakultaten an staatlichen Hochschulen sind neben den staatlichen auch kirchliche Regelwerke einschlagig. Der Band erlautert in zwei Beitragen Begriff und Wesen der kirchlichen, vor allem der katholischen Hochschulen und ordnet sie in das staatliche sowie kirchliche Normengeflecht ein. Dabei befasst sich Rufner mit dem Verhaltnis der kirchlichen Hochschulen zum staatlichen Hochschulrecht, wahrend der Schwerpunkt des Beitrags von Rhode auf dem kirchlichen Recht, hier dem Recht der katholischen Kirche, liegt. Grundlage der Beitrage sind die Referate der Autoren, die sie im Rahmen eines Symposions zu Ehren des renommierten Kirchenrechtlers und langjahrigen Herausgebers der Entscheidungssammlung "KirchE" Prof. Dr. Manfred Baldus, Vorsitzender Richter am Landgericht a.D., im Marz 2010 gehalten haben.

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth. Childhood was once restricted to a life stage that passed all too quickly but Neverland 2.0 now makes childhood available to everyone as a permanent lifestyle choice, but at what cost to our communities and to the planet? A new book, 'Leaving Neverland' (Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations) weighs up the costs, delightfully skewers perpetual boys and offers Rites of Passage as a timely way we can all leave Neverland. For our sake, ffs (for our futures sake) it is time to leave. "Behind every preventable threat to the future of the human race stands a boy in a man's body with both of his hands in the cookie jar set aside for future generations."

This expos, Whistleblower Doctor-The Politics and Economics of Pain and Dying, concerns Dr. David K. Cundiff's efforts over 32 years to improve the quality of palliative care and hospice services for cancer and AIDS patients at the LA County + USC Medical Center. Over a nine year period, he improved the care of terminally ill cancer and AIDS patients at the LA County + USC Medical Center by directing a popular "Pain and Palliative Care Consultation Service." Unfortunately for the financial bottom line of the hospital, better pain and symptom control of terminally ill patients led to more patients at home and fewer patients occupying Medicaid-funded hospital beds. The unintended consequence of Medicaid's dysfunctional hospital-centric funding system was the closure of Dr. Cundiff's Consultation Service in 1995. Dr. Cundiff subsequently blew the whistle by writing 83 incident reports about patients receiving poor pain and symptom management. He also wrote an op-ed piece in the LA Times about poor palliative care and widespread institutionalized inefficiencies due to dysfunctional Medicaid financial incentives rewarding a higher hospital census. The hospital retaliated by firing Dr. Cundiff, and the California Medical Board revoked his medical license, both supposedly over a single clinical treatment decision. In a patient with alcoholism, liver failure, and a deep venous thrombosis (DVT, leg vein clot), Dr. Cundiff stopped anticoagulant medications because of the high risk of serious bleeding. Unfortunately, the patient later died of thromboses in his lungs (pulmonary emboli). This reasonable judgment call was not the real reason the Medical Board revoked Dr. Cundiff's license. He challenged the institutionalized inefficiencies in charity hospitals spawned by Medicaid. In researching the scientific evidence regarding anticoagulant drug treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE: deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary emboli), Dr. Cundiff serendipitously discovered that these drugs do not reduce the risk of death in these patients. In fact, they increase the chance of dying due to bleeding and rebound hypercoagulability (increased clotting after stopping anticoagulants). Up to 20,000 Americans die unnecessarily each year due to bleeding and rebound clotting from these drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of VTE. While many bleed to death or suffer major nonfatal bleeding, drug companies and medical special interests earn from $17 - $25 billion per year in the U.S. from unnecessary and harmful anticoagulation treatments. Dr. Cundiff's peer-reviewed medical journal publications challenging anticoagulant treatment of VTE have been ignored by drug company funded anticoagulant drug researchers. Federal government health regulators in the FDA and NIH have refused to issue a detailed transparent, public critique of his challenges to the evidence basis of anticoagulation for VTE. Drug company financial clout is killing people.The major goals of this book include: improving the pain and symptom control of cancer and AIDS patients, stopping the epidemic of deaths and injuries from the use of anticoagulant drugs, changing the Medicaid reimbursement system for the LA County Department of Health Services and other places where it fosters inefficiencies and poor medical care, and reinstating Dr. Cundiff's medical license.

A non-fiction book about corruption in the Australian Government, Judiciary and Federal Police. There is no doubt it will spark a Royal Commission. The book is a great read for anyone who has an interest in politics and non-fiction books on corruption. It is a must read for anyone in the legal fraternity especially law students and other students studying Ethics and Professional Responsibility. It allows the reader to be a fly on the wall as it happened and also see the abuses of the legal system from a practical perspective not just a theoretical viewpoint as most books on Ethics and Professional Responsibility are solely theory based. The book also deals with corruption by the directors of Fairfax Media and their lawyers Freehills, including the directors of Freehills. The book includes documented evidence and names names. Some of the highlights are, but not limited to: 1. Prima Facie cases against a number of judicial officers for breaching section 34 of the 1914 Crimes Act. 2. The Attorney General, Robert McClelland, trying to cover up the corruption and caught out lying about referring the corruption to the Federal Police. 3. The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd turning a blind eye to the corruption and his own criminal history. 4. The current directors of Fairfax Media being in contempt of court. 5. A current judge having a sexual relationship with one of the respondents while the judge was hearing the matter. 6. Transcript evidence of a judicial officer lying while on the bench in relation to having a personal interest in the matters. When I started asking to many questions he quickly transferred the matters to the Federal Court. 7. The fraudulent costs bill sent to the author by Freehills Lawyers on behalf of Fairfax Media which showed criminal conduct and fraud etc. So much so that they could never enforce the costs. 8. The criminal history of a judicial officer which includes price fixing and bribing a witness. Plus much more. The Commonwealth Ombudsman, Professor John McMillan, has openly stated in an ABC Four Corners interview (October 2008) that the Australian Federal Police do not want to know about corruption in their own department. He said he was also told this directly by senior Australian Federal Police. This in itself says there needs to be a Royal Commission. It is worth noting that the Federal Police and the Federal Courts are all part of the Attorney Generals Department. Some of the topics the book raises and/or deals with are: judicial bias - judicial corruption - bribes - perceived bias - actual bias - breaching the Barrister Rules - breaching the Solicitor Rules - lack of ethics - abusing procedural fairness - abuse of processes - delaying tactics - over charging - attempted fraud - criminal conduct - attempting to pervert the course of justice - fabricating evidence - dereliction of duty - shredding of evidence personal interest. Just for the record on the front and back covers there are pictures of the Author holding a sign Justice Moore takes bribes. The photos were tendered as part of an affidavit in court before Justice Moore. The book has further information on history of the photos.

The law is a good thing, and man has been compiling laws and rules in one way or another since time immemorial. This book is meant for California attorneys, but anyone anywhere can enjoy this book, because it is based on a system of right. Everyone loves to hate lawyers and taxes, and people say the only thing you can be sure about is death and taxes; so what this means is people cannot be sure about attorneys. This book attempts to change all that, to change the state of the world, by bringing attention to a few things called morality and integrity. Ms. Cellaneous, The Unknown Attorney, loves right and justice. This is her third book on the law. Her first book, "Everything you never wanted to know About Your Nonprofit Corporation," was used as a textbook in a graduate class in public management at BYU; and this book is written to complement a CLE course she is teaching for Lawline on line as one of their on line professors. This book is informative and serious and fun, and will point out some real life experiences The Unknown Attorney has had in her own law practice. Who is The Unknown Attorney? Turn to the copyright page in this book to find out. This book is about doing what is right, and about following the rules and about defining integrity and justice. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass once said, "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." Fredrick Douglass was born a slave; and with those words, he said it all.

Poetry. In this, the second of his three-book series TRIAL & ERROR: THE EDUCATION OF A FREEDOM LAWYER, Art Campbell becomes a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. He tries dozens of cases with only ten minutes preparation, confronts "testilying" witnesses, and argues constitutional issues on behalf of the government. His prosecutorial career culminates with his accidental conviction of an innocent man. When he is told by his superior to let the verdict stand, he disobeys. With vivid description and uncommon candor Campbell reveals prosecutorial strategies, flaws in our justice system, and his own doubts whether, as a prosecutor, he can still be a freedom lawyer.

"The Lawyer's Almanac" is a practical guide for the soon-to-be and new lawyer, outlining the situations they will likely encounter during their legal career. Charles J. Goldman is an experienced attorney who presents each topic in an easy-to-read and engaging manner. The information that he provides applies to sole practitioners and midsize and large firms as well.
While the chapters have humorous headings, the humor is not a reflection of the author's opinion of the practice of law, as he has a great respect and admiration for the Law, the majority of its practitioners, judges, and support personnel as well. Rather, it is through humor that he effectively presents the topics that can make or break a new lawyer. His chapters include: Don't go into the Alamo the Day Before the Mexicans Come Over the Wall Courtesy Counts Write What You Mean and Mean What You Write When in Doubt, Don't Remember the Advice, "Stop, Look, & Think " Don't Research for an Hour When a One Minute Phone Call Will Get You the Answer ...among others. is a wise investment in your career as a successful and savvy lawyer

Living in the days of unethical debacles caused by professional and educated business people can easily symbolize human beings as animals who would do what they can to live and survive. However, a human being must be regarded as a social being whose development has been different from that of animals because of social relationships, cultures, and his or her concept of good and evil. This evolutionary advantage is based on morality and ethics demonstrated by honest individuals throughout the world in various industries. Moral development theorists have been concluding that as human beings mature, that is grow older and gain more experience, their ethical values tend to improve and they will become morally sophisticated. Research in human behavior suggests that individuals develop their ethical values through their family life, school, and other social influences. Business Ethics of Retail Employees is based on primary research with 602 retail employees and managers using the Personal Business Ethics Scores (PBES) survey. The PBES measures personal commitment to integrity, honesty, and observance of the laws regulating current business activities. The results of this research suggest that age, supermarket management experience, education, and gender are factors which impact the moral development of retail associates and managers. The question posed is "How ethical are modern workers?" and it turns out that they appear to be very ethical based on their PBES survey findings. If people are the common denominator of success and effectiveness, then the best way to promote fairness and cooperation, and to improve and empower employees, is to properly educate them so they can take personal responsibility for their own decisions, whether personal, professional, or business-related. The Business Ethics of Retail Employees book can help in this education process as it is a recommended reading for retail managers, trainers, human resource professionals, and business students.