1: Which of the following statements can best be associated with Virtue ethics?
ANS: A life in the law is valuable not because of money or status but because of the
unique type of person or character it allows the lawyer to become.
2: In an adversarial system legal practitioners attempt to determine the true version of
the facts.
ANS: FALSE
3: Immanuel Kant was a proponent of:
ANS: Rule-governed ethics.
4: In Law Society of the Transvaal v Machaka 1998 (4) SA 413 (T) the court held that
character screening violated the right to freely choose one’s profession.
ANS: FALSE
5: The duty of confidentiality comes to an end once the client/attorney relationship ends.
ANS: FALSE
, 6: Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that distinguishes the legal profession
from other jobs?
ANS: Legal professionals accept only the most profitable cases.
7: In Society of Advocates of SA (Witwatersrand Division) v Fischer 1966 (1) SA 133 (T)
the court?
ANS: applied the duty approach followed in the Matthews case and struck Fischer off the
Role.
8: Which one of the following is NOT a characteristic of the adversarial system?
ANS: Legal practitioners attempt to determine the true version of the facts.
9: In Incorporated Law Society, Transvaal v Mandela 1954 (3) SA 102 (T) the court held
that since Mandela’s offence was of a personally disgraceful character, it rendered him
unfit to be an attorney.
ANS: FALSE
10: Which one of the philosophical approaches to ethics is characterised by the demise
of the belief in the universal validity of a particular Western lifestyle or morality?
ANS: Postmodernist ethics.
11: Which of the following statements can best be associated with Utilitarianism?
ANS: The only thing that is relevant in determining whether or not an action is right or
wrong is the purpose which the action is intended to achieve.
12: Advocates practising without Fidelity Fund Certificates
ANS: are briefed by an attorney.
13: In Natal Law Society v Maqubela 1986 (3) SA 51 (N) the court
ANS: held that the political offence committed disqualified Maqubela from practising as
an attorney.
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