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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 (NO. 21 OF 2008) - SECT 140

140 .         Effect of non-disclosure on provision of certain services

        (1)         This section applies if —

            (a)         section 139 applies to a service that is provided to a person who has engaged a multi-disciplinary partnership to provide the service and that the person might reasonably assume to be a legal service; and

            (b)         a disclosure has not been made under that section about that service.

        (2)         The standard of care owed by the multi-disciplinary partnership in relation to the service is the standard that would be applicable if the service had been provided by an Australian legal practitioner.



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