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  2. American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct

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    On May 10, 2018, the Supreme Court of California entered an administrative order on the 70 proposed rules which approved 27 rules in full, approved 42 rules with modifications, and rejected only one rule. [49] The rules took effect on November 1, 2018. [50] The new California rules are numbered so as to closely map to their MRPC analogues. [3]

  3. Law of agency - Wikipedia

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    The law of agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, who is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the principal) to create legal relations with a third party. [1]

  4. Worker representation on corporate boards of directors

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    No general law, but there was employee representation in railways. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Act 1856, [16] National Health Service Act 2006 etc. 0%: N/A: No general law, except in universities, and in NHS foundation trusts. The Financial Reporting Council has a comply or explain rules for employee representation in the UK Corporate ...

  5. South African law of agency - Wikipedia

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    The law of agency in South Africa regulates the performance of a juristic act on behalf or in the name of one person ("the principal") by another ("the agent"), who is authorised by the principal to act, with the result that a legal tie (vinculum juris) arises between the principal and a third party, which creates, alters or discharges legal relations between the principal and a third party.

  6. Practice of law - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] But other variations are subject to interpretation and conflicting regulation, particularly as to the scope and breadth of the prohibition. [1] Black's Law Dictionary defines unauthorized practice of law as "The practice of law by a person, typically a nonlawyer, who has not been licensed or admitted to practice law in a given ...

  7. Duty of confidentiality - Wikipedia

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    Legal professional rules have tended to adopt the broad view of the scope of duty recognised in contract law. The obligation to retain information in confidence, according to the professional rules in Australian jurisdictions is premised on its connection with the legal retainer rather than the source of the information. Hence, the professional ...

  8. M21-1 Adjudication Procedures Manual - Wikipedia

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    Seal of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Veterans advocacy organizations such as Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and the National Organization of Veterans' Advocates (NOVA) [8] have argued that many additions to the M21-1 Manual constitute "interpretative rules" and that the Federal Circuit therefore has jurisdiction to review such changes upon direct appeal by a ...

  9. Legitimate expectation - Wikipedia

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    The representation may arise from either the words used or the behaviour of the parties. The aggrieved party must not have utilized fraudulent measures to obtain the representation, and must have disclosed all relevant information. [2] The representation must usually be "clear, unambiguous and devoid of all relevant qualification". [29]