New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM GENERAL RULES 2015 - REG 91E

91E Opening and maintaining files

(1) A law practice must open a file in respect of each matter for which the law practice receives instructions to provide legal services to a person.

(2) The file must be opened as soon as practicable after the law practice receives the instructions.

(3) The file must contain or have endorsed on it--

(a) the particulars required by rule 93(2)(a)-(d), and

(b) the contact details used by the law practice to contact the person to whom it is providing the legal services.

(4) Subrules (1)-(3) do not apply to a barrister.