AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES

AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES 24 August 20152 AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES EXPLANATORY NOTEIn March 2015 and April 2015 the Law Council of Australia approved a number of minor changes to the AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES as originally settled by the Law Council in June 2011. Apart from the omission of Rule , the changes were of a stylistic or grammatical nature only and did not alter the substance of any of the RULES . Rule was omitted in light of the decision in Barbaro v The Queen [2014] HCA version of the AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES incorporates the revisions approved by the Law Council of Profession Uniform LawThe AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES incorporating the changes approved by the Law Council of Australia in March 2015 and April 2015 were made as the Legal Profession Uniform Law AUSTRALIAN SOLICITORS CONDUCT RULES 2015 under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and came into effect in New South Wales and Victoria on 1 July 2015.

clients’ interests are adverse and there is a conflict or potential conflict of the duties to act in the best interests of each client, the solicitor or law practice must not act, except where permitted by Rule 11.3. 11.3 Where a solicitor or law practice seeks to act in the circumstances specified in Rule 11.2, the solicitor or law

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