The Rules of Professional Conduct: A Conflicting Guide for Counsel in Child Custody and Access Proceedings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Rules of Professional Conduct [Rules] of the Law Society of Upper Canada outline the professional and ethical obligations of all members of the legal profession in the province of Ontario. Lawyers are required to turn to these Rules when faced with ethical and professional dilemmas in their everyday practice. However, the acrimonious nature of family law often makes the application of these rules impractical. This article examines the vague and conflicting guidance the Rules provide to family law lawyers faced with ethical dilemmas in child custody and access proceedings. It is proposed that past disciplinary proceedings of other lawyers actually provide the most concrete and clear guidance for family lawyers faced with difficult ethical dilemmas. This state of affairs is problematic, as disciplinary proceedings are not meant to be a forum for teaching ethical standards. The proceedings were created as a method for reprimanding lawyers who deliberately violate the Rules. To alleviate this problem, it is proposed that the Rules should include a hierarchical ordering so that family law lawyers are not faced with conflicting advice when resolving their ethical dilemmas.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".