4Interpretation

4 Interpretation

In these rules –

associate, in relation to a solicitor, means –

(a) a principal of the solicitor’s law practice; or

(b) a partner, employee or agent of the solicitor or of the solicitor’s law practice; or

(c) a corporation or partnership in which the solicitor has a material beneficial interest; or

(d) in the case of the solicitor’s incorporated legal practice, a director, officer, employee or agent of the incorporated legal practice or of a subsidiary of the incorporated legal practice; or

(e) a member of the solicitor’s immediate family; or

(f) a member of the immediate family of a partner of the solicitor’s law practice or of the immediate family of a director of the solicitor’s incorporated legal practice or of a subsidiary of the incorporated legal practice;

associated entity means an entity that is not part of a solicitor’s law practice but which provides legal or administrative legal services to the law practice including, but not limited to –

(a) a service trust or company; and

(b) a partnership of the law practice operating under the trading name of, or a name which includes all or part of the trading name of, the law practice;

Australian roll means a roll of practitioners maintained by the Supreme Court or under the legal profession legislation of any Australian jurisdiction;

case means –

(a) the court proceedings for which the solicitor is engaged; or

(b) the dispute in which the solicitor is advising;

client, with respect to the solicitor or the solicitor’s law practice, means a person (not an instructing solicitor) for whom the solicitor is engaged to provide legal services for a matter;

means documents to which a client is entitled;