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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 69
Scope of practice
69 Scope of practice
(1) This section applies to-- (a) a foreign lawyer who is practising foreign
law under Division 2; or
(b) an Australian-registered foreign lawyer.
(2)
The foreign lawyer may provide only the following legal services in
Australia-- (a) doing work, or transacting business, concerning the law of a
foreign country where the lawyer is registered or authorised by the foreign
registration authority for the country;
(b) legal services (including
appearances) in relation to proceedings before bodies other than courts, being
proceedings in which the body concerned is not required to apply the rules of
evidence and in which knowledge of the foreign law of a country referred to in
paragraph (a) is considered by the designated local regulatory authority to be
essential;
(c) legal services in relation to arbitration proceedings or
conciliation, mediation and other forms of consensual dispute resolution;
(d)
legal services of a kind specified in the Uniform Rules for the purposes of
this section.
(3) Nothing in this Law authorises the foreign lawyer-- (a) to
practise Australian law in Australia; or
(b) to appear in any court, except
on the lawyer's own behalf or as permitted by the Uniform Rules.
(4) Despite
subsection (3), the foreign lawyer may advise on the effect of an Australian
law if-- (a) the giving of advice on Australian law is necessarily incidental
to the practice of foreign law; and
(b) the advice is expressly based on
advice given on the Australian law by an Australian legal practitioner who is
not an employee of the foreign lawyer.
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