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CurrentLoss of client legal privilege – joint clients
Chapter 3Admissibility of evidence
Part 3.10Privileges
Division 1Client legal privilege
124 Loss of client legal privilege – joint clients
(1) This section only applies to a civil proceeding in connection with which 2 or more parties have, before the commencement of the proceeding, jointly retained a lawyer in relation to the same matter.
(2) This Division does not prevent one of those parties from adducing evidence of:
(a)
a communication made by any one of them to the lawyer; or
(b) the contents of a confidential document prepared by or at the direction or request of any one of them;
in connection with that matter.
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