Jun 15, 2023 –
On 15 June 2023, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2023, the Law Council published a revised Best Practice Guide for Legal Practitioners in Relation to Elder Financial Abuse to help lawyers identify potential incidents of abuse, particularly financial
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Aug 26, 2024 –
Bidding for legal work and engaging with legal brokers raises ethical issues that require consideration by legal practitioners before participation.
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Nov 11, 2019 –
Guidelines relating to Bullying, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment adopted by the Council at its meeting on 4 November 2019
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Aug 26, 2024 –
This is also a practical guide to assist legal practitioners when they have doubts about their client’s “legal”
capacity to give them instructions or to make their own legal decisions. This may be because of illness, intellectual disability, mental
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Aug 26, 2024 –
These Guidelines are for legal practitioners who operate a practice from home, but can also assist those practitioners working from home away from their office in relation to issues of client confidentiality and privacy, and duties to the court and t
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Feb 1, 2021 –
Crowd-funding has obvious access to justice benefits and can be a valid and valuable source of funding for legal services.
2. The purpose of this document is to improve understanding of crowd-funding and highlight the relevant ethical and profession
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide legal practitioners with a starting point for
exploring the risks and opportunities presented by cryptocurrency.
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Apr 30, 2020 –
These guidelines, which have been established at the instigation of the Society’s Young Lawyers’ Committee, seek to outline the dress standards generally accepted by the courts and as to acceptable interpretation of the standards. Practitioners are e
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information. It is not an exhaustive statement of all the relevant ethical obligations that might apply to specific circumstances.
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Mar 28, 2024 –
The purpose of this Guide is to assist employed practitioners who are taking or considering taking a leave of absence from legal practice and to inform you of the relevant Rules and professional obligations.
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Aug 28, 2024 –
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information regarding the employment of Paralegals/ Specialist Law Clerks.
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Aug 26, 2024 –
Social media presents both opportunities and challenges for legal practitioners by easily and inexpensively allowing legal practitioners to interact with others and the public generally. The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist practitioners in a
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The Law Council of Australia supports measures to improve the retention within the profession of women barristers and wishes to ensure the efficacy of the existing Law Council equitable briefing policy by amending that policy by the introduction of m
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Aug 26, 2024 –
General Guidelines Between the Australian Federal Police and the Law Council of Australia as to the Execution of Search Warrants on Lawyers' Premises, Law Societies and like Institutions in Circumstances where a Claim of Legal Professional Privilege
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide practitioners with a starting point for seeking general information regarding handling the departure of a legal practitioner and the dissolution of law practices.
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Aug 26, 2024 –
Their aim is to assist law practices guard against the risk of a breach of the duty of
confidentiality owed to former clients.
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Aug 23, 2018 –
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide legal practitioners with a starting point for identifying warning signs of insolvency in their practice, how to avoid or manage it and how it can impact upon their ability to practise law.
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Aug 26, 2024 –
Their aim is to assist law practices guard against the risk of a breach of the duty of
confidentiality owed to former clients.
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Aug 26, 2024 –
This document provides a set of six protocols, some related discussion and tips for a legal practice that is culturally attuned to Aboriginal peoples’ requirements. It is primarily aimed at lawyers who service Aboriginal people in South Australia whe
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Aug 26, 2024 –
These Guidelines aim to assist providers of legal services to produce advertisements and promotional material that comply with ethical and statutory obligations, and therefore reduce the risk of a finding of misleading and deceptive conduct (whether
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The Law Council of Australia has developed these guidelines to serve as a general ethical and practical framework for the practice of mediation. The guidelines are intended to apply to all types of mediation. Particular professional and other bodies
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The Law Council of Australia has developed these guidelines to give assistance to lawyers representing clients in the mediation of civil and commercial disputes. It is not intended that the guidelines derogate in any way from the usual obligations im
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Aug 26, 2024 –
The Law Council of Australia has developed these guidelines to provide practical and ethical guidance to parties engaged in mediation. The guidelines are intended to apply to all types of mediation. Professional and other bodies may have different re
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Mar 6, 2023 –
The examination aims to identify any injury or medical condition that you suffer and to determine the extent to which such injury or condition was caused by your accident and/or work conditions.
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Jun 28, 2024 –
This Guidance is intended to raise awareness of the risk of money laundering and terrorism financing to prevent legal practitioners from being unwittingly misused by financial criminals.
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