Throughout England and Wales as well as many foreign born solicitors are regulated every year, this authority is a part of the Law Society of England and Wales. Their mission is to ensure that Solicitors in this country adhere to the Code of Conduct that they say is vital to providing quality customer care to clients.
The Code of Conduct is a book that gives you specific information about how to be professional and makes sure that you adhere to the rules. The code will point out the many principles associated with how you are supposed to act as professionals, they give you a structure that you must follow, teach you how to use the right language and how to make sure your service is right for your clients. With all of these codes you learn what is expected of you as regulated by the “Legal Services Act 2007”.
The main rules teach you how you are supposed to uphold the law, how to act with integrity, how not to allow your independence to be taken away and to work toward ensuring the best interests of your clients. You must at all times behave in such a way that you maintain the trust that the client and the public has put in you as a solicitor and to provide your clients with the best service that you can give at all times.
The reason for this code is to ensure that the members of the legal profession provide services that are in the best interest of their clientele and to ensure that these professionals are holding on to the laws that they are sworn to serve. The duties that are required of solicitors both at home and foreign are important to the legal structure of the UK.
In the process of living by these laws you must show that you have a clear understanding of them in your legal and professional behavior showing that you are a person of character and dignity at all times. You will need to show that this code not only means a lot to you but that it is totally understood and carried out to the best of your abilities. You will need to remember that your duties should be applied to every situation and that you and your employees maintain them for as long as you are in legal practice.
Ensuring that these duties are carried out, which means that you stick to them, comes before any legal obligation you have to any one case. This means that you can’t knowingly break the law because you are the solicitor for a client. You may have some obligation to your clients, but you also have obligations to the court and the rules of it come before any other rules.
