Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
Act, the relationship, and any privilege arising out of the relationship,
between counsel or solicitor and client is not, and the rights of any of them
are not, affected by the circumstance of a private practitioner giving his
services in pursuance of this Act.
(2) The like
privileges as those that arise from the relationship of client and solicitor
acting in his professional capacity and in the course of his professional
employment shall arise between an applicant or assisted person and the
Director or a legal practitioner who is a member of the staff when the
Director or that legal practitioner practises as, or performs any of the
functions of a solicitor for the applicant or assisted person in pursuance of
this Act.
[Section 51 amended by No. 113 of 1978
s. 9; No. 21 of 2008 s. 674(25).]
[Heading inserted by No. 60 of 1977
s. 25.]