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CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Rule 221 (s. 6(8), Legal Profession Act)
All members shall conduct their practice in accordance with:
(a) the Yukon Code of Professional Conduct as amended from time to time; and
(b) the Code of Conduct adopted by the Canadian Bar Association, as amended from time to time, where it is not inconsistent with the Yukon Code of Professional Conduct.
YUKON CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
PART TWO
LAWYER AND LAWYER
- The lawyer's conduct toward his or her fellow lawyer should be characterized by courtesy and good faith. Whatever may be the ill feeling existing between clients it should not be allowed to influence counsel in their conduct and demeanor towards each other or toward suitors in the case. All personalities between them should be scrupulously avoided, as should colloquies between counsel, which cause delay and promote unseemly wrangling.
- The lawyer should endeavor as far as possible to suit the convenience of the opposing counsel when the interests of his or her client or the cause of justice will not be injured by so doing.
- The lawyer should give no undertakings that cannot be fulfilled and must fulfil every undertaking that is given.
- The lawyer should never in any way communicate upon the subject in controversy, or attempt to negotiate or compromise the matter directly with any party represented by a lawyer except through such lawyer.
- The lawyer should avoid all sharp practice and should take no paltry advantage when his or her opponent has made a slip or overlooked some technical matter. No client has a right to demand that counsel should be illiberal or that counsel shall do anything repugnant to his or her own sense of honor and propriety.
- No lawyer shall unreasonably refuse or delay in responding to communications from another lawyer.
- When a lawyer who has been on salary to a firm leaves that firm, he or she shall not attempt to take any of the firm's clients.
- A lawyer must at all times recognize that disgraceful or dishonorable conduct whether in the lawyer's professional or private life may tend to bring disrespect upon the profession as a whole and a lawyer must therefore strive to avoid both private and professional activities and behavior that could harm the general reputation of the profession.