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The Australian Law Reform Commission has adopted the terminology 'client legal privilege', as opposed to 'legal professional privilege', on the basis the privilege is held by the client not the lawyer. [4] 'Client legal privilege' is the terminology used in Commonwealth and state evidence statutes.
Legal professional rules have tended to adopt the broad view of the scope of duty recognised in contract law. The obligation to retain information in confidence, according to the professional rules in Australian jurisdictions is premised on its connection with the legal retainer rather than the source of the information. Hence, the professional ...
Every law school in Australia has a prescribed course of study that involves the Priestley 11. Laws schools need not make them discrete subjects unto themselves, (eg, the law school can integrate one or more subjections within other subjects offered, or they may offer the subjects under the header of a different name, or they may even split a mandatory Priestley 11 subject into two or three ...
The rules of court in NSW extends the definitions in the Evidence Act to discovery and inspection of documents. The right, under legislation, has been renamed to reflect the fact that it is a right of the client. It is now client legal privilege (as opposed to legal professional privilege).
Its legal institutions and traditions are substantially derived from that of the English legal system, which superseded Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation. [1] Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system of English law. The country's common law is the same across the ...
The Queensland Law Society is the peak professional body for solicitors in Queensland, Australia. It represents more than 9,000 members, [ 1 ] and is affiliated with the Law Council of Australia . The society provides support and public advocacy for the legal profession.
An inter jurisdictional Legal Services Council was established in order to regulate the legal profession and its delivery of legal services. [7] This resulted in the creation of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 [8] and the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct Barristers' Rules 2015. [9]
The Legal Profession Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of Victoria which outlines the accreditation requirements for the legal profession in the Australian state of Victoria. [ 1 ] References