Legal Profession Act 2006
251ADI not subject to certain obligations and liabilities
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251 ADI not subject to certain obligations and liabilities (1) An ADI at which a trust account is kept by a law practice— (a) is not under any obligation to control or supervise transactions in relation to the account or to see to the application of amounts disbursed from the account; and (b) does not have, in relation to any liability of the law practice to the ADI, any recourse or right (whether by way of set-off counterclaim, charge or otherwise) against amounts in the account. (2) Subsection (1) does not relieve an ADI from any liability to which it is subject apart from this Act.