117Interpretation of Division

117 Interpretation of Division

(1)  In this Division –

client includes the following:

(a) [Section 117 Subsection (1) amended by No. 46 of 2010, s. 32, Applied:01 Jan 2011] a person or body who engages a lawyer to provide legal services or who employs a lawyer (including under a contract of service);

(b) an employee or agent of a client;

(c) an employer of a lawyer if the employer is –

(i) the Commonwealth or a State or Territory; or

(ii) a body established by a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory;

(d) if, under a law of a State or Territory relating to persons of unsound mind, a manager, committee or person, however described, is for the time being acting in respect of the person, estate or property of a client, a manager, committee or person so acting;

(e) if a client has died, a personal representative of the client;

(f) a successor to the rights and obligations of a client, being rights and obligations in respect of which a confidential communication was made;

confidential communication means a communication made in such circumstances that, when it was made –

(a) the person who made it; or

(b) the person to whom it was made –

was under an express or implied obligation not to disclose its contents, whether or not the obligation arises under law;

confidential document means a document prepared in such circumstances that, when it was prepared –

(a) the person who prepared it; or

(b) the person for whom it was prepared –

was under an express or implied obligation not to disclose its contents, whether or not the obligation arises under law;