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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Conduct of practice by practitioners - Practice rules and regulations

95: Code of professional conduct and client care

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"Rules for Lawyers to Treat Clients Fairly"

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You need to follow a code of professional conduct and client care. The New Zealand Law Society and the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers make these rules using powers from section 94(e). These rules are a guide for discipline and cover things like duties to clients and the court.

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95Code of professional conduct and client care

  1. The New Zealand Law Society and the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers, in exercising the powers conferred by section 94(e), must each have rules that include or provide for a code of professional conduct and client care, which will be a reference point for discipline and which will focus on, but need not be limited to,—

  2. in the case of lawyers, the duties of lawyers as officers of the High Court and the duties of lawyers to their clients:
    1. in the case of conveyancing practitioners, the duties of conveyancing practitioners to their clients:
      1. in the case of both lawyers and conveyancing practitioners, the duties imposed on them by their fundamental obligation to be independent in providing regulated services to their clients.