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Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
124Loss of client legal privilege – joint clients
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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.