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LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 1977 - SECT 22

22—Disclosure of information relating to legal assistance

        (1)         A legal practitioner

            (a)         must disclose to the Commission any information relating to the provision of legal assistance to assisted persons that the Commission may require; and

            (b)         may disclose any such information that the practitioner considers relevant to the provision of legal assistance,

and the assisted person will be taken to have waived any right or privilege that might prevent such disclosure.

        (2)         Except as provided in subsection (1), the relationship of legal practitioner and client, and the privileges arising from the relationship, are unaffected by the fact that the practitioner is acting for an assisted person.



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