BUSINESS LAW AND ETHICS Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3 1. Are the customers greeting real access to the justice or simply reaped off by unwarranted legal fees?.................................................................................................................................... 4 2. Discussion on the legal profession in England from ethical perspective................................ 5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 7 References ................................................................................................................................... 8 Introduction Legal service in England is squeezing for high service charges and increasing number of disputes in the courts. Weak structure and ethical practice make it more difficult for the common people to take the service of the legal system. Court in some cases is setting the charges of the lawyers. Justice and right of the people must be ensured by strong ethical stance among the lawyers. Confidentiality must be ensured. 1. Are the customers greeting real access to the justice or simply reaped off by unwarranted legal fees? Legal practice in England is rigid and most of the participants and citizens of the country experience the different facilities in the legal system in the country. Practice of legal systems is different in the British law and it makes the difficulties in the right justice to be mentioned for the people in the country. Based on the legal fees structure of the barrister or solicitors, victims must bring the higher cost to the legal person as fees. However, amount of the claims must decide the level of fees to the solicitors or barristers. Besides the activities of the legal persons are different and so they try to maximize the fees charged for the clients. Increases in court charges, early closures and legal aid make it difficult for the participants to access to the right of the people through the means of the court system in England. Barriers to the access to the justice might affect the income, family and social status of the people of the country. There is a financial binding on the eligibility of the beneficiary of the legal aid from the customers. Some of the high performing legal service firms are providing the service at loan after winning the cases cost must be brought by the defendants (Bila, 2019). Highly paid solicitors or reputed law firms in England makes it possible to access to the justice but that needs much expenditures. It is more often a difficult task for the lawyers to deal with ethical dilemma regarding success fees or rate of win in cases in the field over time. Conflict of interest might arise when a solicitor or firm of solicitor act for two or more clients simultaneously. This will raise ethical dilemma. If the solicitors accepted the confidential information of the clients during the dealings for the case before, it is mandatory for the solicitors not to act against the clients prior his or her permission. At the same time dealing with two clients who have conflict of interest is not legal or ethical which makes it difficult for the clients to right to the justice of the citizen. Barristers or solicitors must not work for both the clients at the same time and use the data of clients against the plenty of the other clients (Pleasence et al., 2004). Defendants in the case in England who should have the legal aid without any fees or charges are advised to consult a firm for which the court has set the legal charges for the clients and the firms which make it difficult for the clients to right to access to the legal shelter in England. Lawyers in England charges a very high rate of fees and uncertainty charges form the clients or high success fees based on the values of the winning of the cases impede the access to the justice of the country. Legal education and legal advice are not sufficient. High court and tribunal fees in England de motivate the people to get service of legal system in England. Bureaucracy and time consuming system make it difficult to take legal service (Loyola, 1931). The reason for demoralizing the people to access to the justice can be understood from the following case: “I have been working as solicitor in England for more than a decade. In the previous days people come to me to take advice on dispute settlement of rent or housing problem while they are getting notice that and lord is going o the court. They come to me and take advice to solve the issues. But now they are not responsive, they come to us when they are being called to meet the court to solve housing related problems (Steyn, 1996). This puts to increase the number of cases in the country and ultimately reduces the possibilities of the justice to the people who are actually victims.” 2. Discussion on the legal profession in England from ethical perspective Ethics in the profession must comply with the needs and demand of the people of the particular section of the society. Right theories state the right of the people should be ensured in every section of the society. While justice theory states the fairness in dealings with the case of the clients of the case (GOODRICH, 1992). Kantian ethics exposes that doing good is not possible without facing any limitation in the work. So, it is very easier to understand that in professional practice in the legal system must abide by the rules set by the legal body and some limitations must be faced (Barrows, 1904). In the legal practice of England ethical behavior is the expected behavior of the profession in legal system in England. Lawyers must serve the benefits of the clients. Justice must be ensured. Solicitors’ regulatory act must be followed that ensure the right of the clients. Problems being faced in the current scenario of legal system in England can be solved by the adopting new policies in the legal system or strictly followed professional ethical guidelines so that defendants can get solution from the legal practice in the country (GoodwinHawkins, 2017). To get rid of the problem, the solicitors or the barristers must follow the following ethical guidelines: 1. Must act in such a way that will ensure the administration of justice and principle of law adopted by the government (Curran, 1966). 2. Clients should get confidence on the legal practitioners so that they discuss the issue and public interest can be saved. 3. Diversity and equality of the laws must be ensured by the lawyers and confidential information must e protected (Nokes, 1965). 4. Integrity, honesty and ethical strength must be maintained in any decision and dealings of the case. In the professional dealing the solicitors or the barristers may face the problems of non disclosure of private information to the UK legal authority and act on behalf of private clients or company of the legal firms (Economides and Sampford, 2003). The court in England believes that the number cases in England are high that leads to the higher cost of the legal service in England. Besides the cost of the legal services and access to the justice in England are going to be limited day by day (Macgregor, 1904). The issues keeping the records confidential and managing the risk of profession by being punctual and efforts to lead the clients’ winner must be focused. Just because of the unnecessary charges or misleading judgment can discourage the people from the cases being placed to the court (Griffiths-Baker, 2007). Ethical judgment must be used to decide the case to be taken and rights to be ensured to the victims. No unnecessary charges to be made to the clients that can hinder the entrance to the service of legal system under the law of England. A case unnecessary charge is following: “I have been assessed as having too much disposable income in spite of having very low income of mine. In spite being unable to pay the full charge of the case you are expected to pay the full charge of the solicitors which is unfortunate. This hinders me affording the cost and takes the service o legal system of England (Haynes, 1914)” Development of the management information system and acquisition approach might start the process of reducing the ethical constraints and solve most of disputes. So, number cases will be reduced in the organization (England, England and Coggon, 2007). For the legal firms in England they can use the following MIS development and acquisition approach to collect the necessary information for the organization to reduce the cost of the company (Haynes, 1914). Figure 1 MIS development process (Bila, 2019) The development of the information system has reduced the cost of the disputes and service charges and increases the confidentiality of the organization. The following case can depict the scenario: “UK government has introduces online court system to solve the dispute of family divorce or separation. It has no direct government support and it paves the way of solving multiple cases very successfully through the collection of the data by online sources at minimum cost. But who are unfamiliar with the modern technology still needs supports to get legal service directly.” Conclusion Legal service of any country is the fundamental rights of the people. 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