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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Miscellaneous provisions - Conditional fee agreements

336: Practice rules in relation to conditional fee agreements

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"Rules lawyers must follow when making special fee agreements"

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You need to follow practice rules made by the New Zealand Law Society when it comes to conditional fee agreements. The New Zealand Law Society can set rules that say what a lawyer must do when making a conditional fee agreement, like giving you information before you agree to it. This can be different depending on the type of conditional fee agreement, such as ones with a success fee or not, as outlined in section 334(1)(c).

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Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Conditional fee agreements

336Practice rules in relation to conditional fee agreements

  1. Practice rules made by the New Zealand Law Society may prescribe requirements for the purposes of section 334(1)(c).

  2. The requirements prescribed pursuant to subsection (1)—

  3. may, among other things, require the lawyer who is to provide the advocacy or litigation services to which the conditional fee agreement relates to provide information to the client before the agreement is made; and
    1. may be different for different descriptions of conditional fee agreements (and, in particular, may be different for those that provide a success fee and those that do not).