3Objectives

3 Objectives

3 Objectives

The objectives of this Law are to promote the administration of justice and an efficient and effective Australian legal profession, by—

(a) providing and promoting interjurisdictional consistency in the law applying to the Australian legal profession; and

(b) ensuring lawyers are competent and maintain high ethical and professional standards in the provision of legal services; and

(c) enhancing the protection of clients of law practices and the protection of the public generally; and

(d) empowering clients of law practices to make informed choices about the services they access and the costs involved; and

(e) promoting regulation of the legal profession that is efficient, effective, targeted and proportionate; and

(f) providing a co-regulatory framework within which an appropriate level of independence of the legal profession from the executive arm of government is maintained.