Legal Profession Act 1966 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9A · Law Practice Entities
156. Relationship between client and law corporation
Feedback & supportLast amended by an amending law of 2014.
A law corporation has the same rights and is subject to the same fiduciary, confidential and ethical requirements with respect to each client of the law corporation that exist at law with respect to a solicitor and his or her client.
law corporation
“law corporation” means a company licensed as a law corporation under section 153;
Solicitor-client privilege exists between a law corporation and a client of the law corporation in the same way as it exists between a solicitor and his or her client and extends to every regulated legal practitioner who is an officer or employee of the law corporation.
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 law corporation, its officers and its employees as they apply to a solicitor.