Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules 2015 · As enacted · Part 5 · Rules Applicable to Touting and Publicity
47. Giving of free legal advice
Feedback & supportA legal practitioner may give free legal advice to any person at or through any facility established with a view to providing legal assistance to members of the public.
In the course of giving such free legal advice, a legal practitioner must take reasonable steps to ensure that no information pertaining to the legal practitioner is publicised except the legal practitioner’s name, the fact that the legal practitioner is a legal practitioner, and the name of the law practice of which the legal practitioner is a director, a partner or an employee.
To avoid doubt, a legal practitioner must not in the course of giving the free legal advice referred to in paragraph (1) —
distribute any of the legal practitioner’s business cards or any brochure, leaflet or pamphlet relating to the legal practitioner’s practice or the practice of the law practice of which the legal practitioner is a director, a partner or an employee; or
act for any person to whom the legal practitioner has given such free legal advice, unless the legal practitioner acts for that person in a pro bono capacity.
Subregulation 1
A legal practitioner may give free legal advice to any person at or through any facility established with a view to providing legal assistance to members of the public.
Subregulation 2
In the course of giving such free legal advice, a legal practitioner must take reasonable steps to ensure that no information pertaining to the legal practitioner is publicised except the legal practitioner’s name, the fact that the legal practitioner is a legal practitioner, and the name of the law practice of which the legal practitioner is a director, a partner or an employee.
Subregulation 3
To avoid doubt, a legal practitioner must not in the course of giving the free legal advice referred to in paragraph (1) —
distribute any of the legal practitioner’s business cards or any brochure, leaflet or pamphlet relating to the legal practitioner’s practice or the practice of the law practice of which the legal practitioner is a director, a partner or an employee; or
act for any person to whom the legal practitioner has given such free legal advice, unless the legal practitioner acts for that person in a pro bono capacity.