Whose morality? Towards a legal profession with an ethical content that is African

Mnyongani, Freddy

dc.contributor.author	Mnyongani, Freddy
dc.date.accessioned	2017-06-27T08:59:52Z
dc.date.available	2017-06-27T08:59:52Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Mnyongani, Freddy (2009)Whose morality? Towards a legal profession with an ethical content that is African. SA Public Law, Volume 24, Issue 1, Jan 2009, p. 121 - 134	en
dc.identifier.issn	02586568
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22727
dc.description.abstract	At the core of the legal profession are legal professional ethics, which are concerned with 'questions of moral permissibility' of legal practitioners. The debate about the relationship between morality and the law is far from over. One cannot make any mention of morality without falling into the 'predictable' polarised debate between positivists and natural law thinkers. For proponents of natural law, morality plays a vital role in determining the validity of positive legal rules, while positivists on the other hand believe in a clear separation between law and morality. Positivists hold the view that the validity of law is dependent on compliance with the formal requirement of rules.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Verloren van Themaatsentrum/Centre	en
dc.subject	Professional ethics	en
dc.title	Whose morality? Towards a legal profession with an ethical content that is African	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.department	Jurisprudence	en