New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 3

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.