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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.281ADIs not subject to certain obligations and liabilities
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### sec.281 ADIs not subject to certain obligations and liabilities
An ADI at which a trust account is kept by a law practice—
is not under an obligation to control or supervise transactions in relation to the account or to oversee the application of money disbursed from the account; and
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 money in the account.
Subsection (1) does not relieve an ADI from any liability to which it is subject apart from this Act.
(sec.281-ssec.1) An ADI at which a trust account is kept by a law practice— is not under an obligation to control or supervise transactions in relation to the account or to oversee the application of money disbursed from the account; and 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 money in the account.
(sec.281-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not relieve an ADI from any liability to which it is subject apart from this Act.
- (a) is not under an obligation to control or supervise transactions in relation to the account or to oversee the application of money 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 money in the account.