EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 124 Loss of client legal privilege: joint clients

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 124

124 Loss of client legal privilege: joint clients

(1) This section only applies to a civil proceeding in connection with which 2 or more parties have, before the commencement of the proceeding, jointly retained a lawyer in relation to the same matter.

(2) This Division does not prevent one of those parties from adducing evidence of--

(a) a communication made by any one of them to the lawyer, or

(b) the contents of a confidential document prepared by or at the direction or request of any one of them,

in connection with that matter.