In this complaint, plaintiff charges defendants with intentional interference with the attorney/client relationship. The plaintiff states that the actions of the defendants in interfering with the attorney/client relationship were willful, wanton, malicious and obtrusive and that punitive damages should be accessed against the defendants.
Advocate Client Relationship In Kenya In Fulton
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Advocates work within the Social Services sector and fight for the needs and rights of other people. This can include jobs such as lawyers, mental health counselors, and patients' rights advocates in the medical field. Often social workers are advocates for people with psychological, legal, or addiction issues.
A lawyer is a person that has successfully completed an LLB degree, on the other hand, an advocate is a person who has attained admission to the bar.
Lawyer: A lawyer is a person who has completed an undergraduate law degree, typically a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree. Advocate: An advocate is a lawyer who has completed additional postgraduate training at the Kenya School of Law, including a diploma in the legal field, and has successfully passed nine courses.
Duty of Honesty: Advocates must provide honest and accurate advice to their clients, even if it may not be what the client wants to hear. Duty of Zeal: Advocates must advocate zealously on behalf of their clients within the bounds of the law.
Client privilege The Advocate has a duty to keep confidential the information received from and advice given to the client. Unauthorised disclosure of client confidential information is professional misconduct.
In order to act in a client's best interests, the law in Kenya, places certain duties on advocates to the clients and they include: Duty of Loyalty: Advocates must prioritize their clients' interests above their own and avoid conflicts of interest.
Preman, 911 S.W. 2d 288, 301 (Mo. App. 1995) ("The relation between attorney and client is fiduciary and binds the attorney to a scrupulous fidelity to the cause of the client which precludes the attorney from any personal advantage from the abuse of that reposed confidence. . . .
The current Model Rule created by the American Bar Association, which has been adopted in most US jurisdictions, provides as follows: ``A lawyer shall not have sexual relations with a client unless a consensual sexual relationship existed between them when the client-lawyer relationship commenced.'' Model Rule 1.8(j).
Client privilege The Advocate has a duty to keep confidential the information received from and advice given to the client. Unauthorised disclosure of client confidential information is professional misconduct.