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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 171S Duty of confidentiality of client communications

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 171S

Duty of confidentiality of client communications

171S Duty of confidentiality of client communications

(1) A legal practitioner must comply with a requirement under this Part to answer a question or to produce information or a document despite any duty of confidentiality in respect of a communication between the practitioner and a client (but only if the client is the complainant or consents to its disclosure).
(2) A legal practitioner may disclose a matter to the Commissioner, a Council or the Tribunal in breach of any such duty of confidentiality if the Commissioner, Council or Tribunal is satisfied that it is necessary for the practitioner to do so in order to rebut an allegation in the complaint.