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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2022 - SECT 255

255 .         Protection from liability

        (1)         No liability is incurred by any of the following persons in respect of anything done in good faith in the performance or purported performance of a function under this Act —

            (a)         the Attorney General;

            (b)         the Board;

            (c)         a Board member;

            (d)         the secretary of the Board employed or engaged under section 54(1);

            (e)         a member of staff of the Board;

            (f)         the Legal Services and Complaints Committee;

            (g)         a Legal Services and Complaints Committee member;

            (h)         the Legal Services and Complaints Officer;

                  (i)         the Legal Costs Committee;

            (j)         a Legal Costs Committee member;

            (k)         the Legal Contribution Trust;

            (l)         a trustee of the Legal Contribution Trust;

            (m)         a person employed or engaged by the Legal Contribution Trust under section 103(2);

            (n)         the Law Society, including the Law Society in its capacity as trustee of the Law Mutual Fund;

            (o)         a person employed or engaged by the Law Society;

            (p)         the PII management committee or any member of that committee;

            (q)         any committee, or member of a committee, of the Board, the Legal Contribution Trust or the Law Society.

        (2)         The protection given by subsection (1) applies even though the thing done as described in that subsection may have been capable of being done whether or not this Act had been enacted.

        (3)         In this section a reference to the doing of anything includes a reference to the omission to do anything.

        (4)         Subsection (5) applies to a person who —

            (a)         performs any function in relation to an investigation under section 233; or

            (b)         is otherwise concerned in an inquiry before the Board under this Act or the Legal Profession Uniform Law (WA) .

        (5)         The person has, in respect of the function or concern, the same protection and immunity that a member or an officer of the Supreme Court, or a witness or a party before the Supreme Court, would have in respect of a function or concern of a like nature related to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.



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