Recorded Webinar: Complying with Instructions – Managing Client Expectation and Ethics in Family Law Matters (Legal Ethics)

Clients don’t always understand solicitors’ duties to courts and other practitioners. They are interested in their matter only. This session looks at ethical dilemmas arising in family law litigation when the client’s instructions reveal inflated expectation or makes compliance difficult, including:

• The nature of ‘lawful, proper and competent instructions’ in family law matters
• Obtaining competent instructions and problems of confidentiality
• Client capacity and the reasonableness of instructions
• When the client becomes unreasonable in an ongoing litigation
• When the duty to comply with client instructions intersect with duty to court?
• Clients making impossible demands – how should you respond?
• Complying with instructions and disclosure obligations in sensitive family law matters
• Disclosure obligations and managing the client who instructs non-disclosure
• How to say ‘no’ when clients instructs to use improperly obtained information
• Case study - Using information obtained from social media on client instruction