Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Keywords

Legal Ethics, Rules of Professional Conduct, Professional Regulation

Abstract

While government lawyers face legal ethics issues unique to that practice context, those issues are overlooked in the rules of professional conduct in all but one Canadian jurisdiction: Nunavut. In this comment, I canvass several provisions that are unique to the Code of Professional Conduct of the Law Society of Nunavut. These provisions are inexplicably overlooked in the Canadian legal ethics literature to date. I then assess how these provisions address the legal ethics issues unique to government lawyering. Finally, I argue that the Nunavut provisions should be considered a starting point and I consider additional changes that could be made to further recognize the realities of government lawyering.

Comments

This is a pre-print article made available online in June 2024. This article is forthcoming in (2025) 47:3 Man LJ [17 pages].

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