EVIDENCE ACT 2008 - SECT 124 Loss of client legal privilege—joint clients

EVIDENCE ACT 2008 - SECT 124

    (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.