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CurrentEffect of non-disclosure of provision of certain services
Chapter 2General requirements for engaging in legal practice
Part 2.6Incorporated legal practices and multi-disciplinary partnerships
Division 3Multi-disciplinary partnerships
160 Effect of non-disclosure of provision of certain services
(1)
This section applies if:
(a) section 159 applies in relation to a service that is provided to a person who has engaged a multi-disciplinary partnership to provide the service and that the person might reasonably assume to be a legal service; and
(b) a disclosure has not been made under that section in relation to the service.
(2) The standard of care owed by the multi-disciplinary partnership in respect of the service is the standard that would be applicable if the service had been provided by an Australian legal practitioner.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory statementSecond reading speech
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