Legal Profession Act 1966 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9A · Law Practice Entities
141. Relationship between client and limited liability law partnership
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A limited liability law partnership has the same rights and is subject to the same fiduciary, confidential and ethical requirements with respect to each client of the limited liability law partnership that exist at law with respect to a solicitor and his or her client.
limited liability law partnership
“limited liability law partnership” means a limited liability partnership licensed as a limited liability law partnership under section 138;
Solicitor-client privilege exists between a limited liability law partnership and a client of the limited liability law partnership in the same way as it exists between a solicitor and his or her client and extends to every regulated legal practitioner who is a partner, an officer or an employee of the limited liability law partnership.
solicitor
“advocate and solicitor”, “advocate” and “solicitor” mean an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
Sections 128 to 131 of the Evidence Act 1893 on professional communications apply to a limited liability law partnership, its partners, its officers and its employees as they apply to a solicitor.