Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW)

Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) No 16a of 2014

Editorial note— The Legal Profession Uniform Law is applied as a law of NSW by the NSW Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014. This version is the Law as it applies in NSW

Chapter 1 Preliminary

Part 1.1 Introduction

1 Citation This Law may be cited as the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW).

2 Commencement This Law commences in a jurisdiction as provided by the Act of that jurisdiction that applies this Law as a law of that jurisdiction.

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.

4 Extraterritorial operation of this Law The operation of this Law is, as far as possible, to include operation, according to its terms, in relation to the following— (a) things situated within or outside the territorial limits of this jurisdiction; (b) acts, transactions and matters done, entered into or occurring within or outside the territorial limits of this jurisdiction; (c) things, acts, transactions and matters (wherever situated, done, entered into or occurring) that would, apart from this Law, be governed or otherwise affected by the law of another jurisdiction.