272Protection of New Zealand Law Society and New Zealand Society of Conveyancers and other persons

1. Neither the New Zealand Law Society nor the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers, nor any member, officer, or employee of either of those bodies, is to be under any criminal or civil liability in respect of anything done or omitted to be done, or in respect of words spoken or written,—

2. at, or for the purposes of, any inquiry or the hearing of, or otherwise dealing with, any proceedings under this Part; or
3. in connection with any investigation of a practitioner's conduct or affairs or accounts for the purposes of this Part; or
4. in the publication of any report or statement relating to any proceedings before a Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer or the Disciplinary Tribunal under this Part, in the exercise or purported exercise of any power conferred by this Act or any rules made under this Act to publish any such report or statement,—
unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the court before which any proceedings are taken that the defendant in those proceedings acted in bad faith.