Alan Donagan | Justifying Legal Practice in the Adversary System

question 63

Multiple Choice

Alan Donagan | Justifying Legal Practice in the Adversary System: A Look at Confidentiality
Donagan looks at arguments justifying lawyer-client confidentiality within the adversary system. While the standard interpretation of confidentiality is justified within the adversary system, an extended interpretation allowing attorneys to withhold information they would otherwise disclose as a moral duty, does not. Donagan examines two arguments for an extended version of confidentiality and demonstrates that the first fails as a consequentialist argument and the second on the basis of false premises. He argues for the sufficient nature of the standard interpretation of confidentiality.
-Information that must be reported to public authorities is such that its omission would lead to

• A) acts contrary to the public good.
• B) pretensions of moral decency.
• C) wrongs to a private individual.
• D) both a and c

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Definitions:

Systematic Review

A research method that collects and critically analyzes multiple research studies or papers on a specific topic.

Publication Bias

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Meta-Analysis

A statistical technique that combines the results of multiple scientific studies to find common trends, differences, or effects.

Forest Plot

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