13Overarching obligations and legal practitioners

13 Overarching obligations and legal practitioners

(1) The overarching obligations do not override any duty or obligation of a legal practitioner to a client, whether arising under the common law or by or under any statute or otherwise, to the extent that those duties and obligations and the overarching obligations can operate consistently.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a legal practitioner or a law practice engaged by, or on behalf of, a client in connection with a civil proceeding must comply with the overarching obligations despite any obligation the legal practitioner or the law practice has to act in accordance with the instructions or wishes of the client.

(3) In the case of any inconsistency between any overarching obligation and a duty or obligation referred to in subsection (1) or an instruction or a wish referred to in subsection (2)—

(a) the overarching obligation prevails to the extent of that inconsistency; and

(b) in the case of the instruction or wish of a client, the legal practitioner is not required to comply with any instruction or wish of the client which is inconsistent with the overarching obligation.