Burglar Contextualised Scenario

This scenario is intended for use with second or third year undergraduate law students. It is appropriate to any module or course that includes the study of lawyers? roles and responsibilities and may be particularly well suited to a clinical module or professional ethics class. It exemplifies the problems of advising a client where the client's instruction or preferred course of action may conflict with the legitimate interests of third parties the wider society or the solicitor's own moral stance. This case study is based on a scenario developed as part of the Professional Conduct course on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.