Legal ethics or law is used to refer to the level of honesty in a professional level set up by lawmakers who do not depict the extent of rightness or wrongness of certainlaws (Allan, 2012). Moral laws are determined by the conscience of a person and how a person is ruled by his/her morals. Morality and legality of law relate in several ways. According to Allan, there are many discrepancies in what should be termed as legally correct according to law and those that determine moral uprightness (2012). Morality and law are totally unrelated in terms of the laws used in each case. Legality of law has unjust laws, for example those of slavery and enforcement, which are so much disapproved by the morality laws (Allan, 2012). Thus, there is the existence of laws which support and defend human beings from obstructions of basic values which include protection against cases as rape; murder and so on is an enough proof that the two laws can work together in unison.
Laws depict a judgement on what type law depicts as wrong and the court of law do not assume intentions of a person or how stable the person is and law cannot govern or control the desires person(Allan, 2012). Morality on the other end determines the judgement dependent on the intention o a person as well as character. Morality has an advancement compared to law as it can govern the law. Morality can influence a set of immoral actions to become illegal.
Allan argues that Laws may be codified as the public expressions of the degree of morality in a society (2012). The laws can be used to teach one generation after another the moral values which are accepted and agreed by the members of a society (Allan, 2012).
In conclusion, morality is what determines the rightfulness or wrongness of an Acton by act of conscience whereas legality of law determines the rightfulness of an action using set laws.
References
Allan, J. (2012). A Sceptical Theory of Morality and Law. New York: Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
