(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.