Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 No 1 (as at 01 July 2009), Public Act

95 Code of professional conduct and client care
  • 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,—

    • (a) in the case of lawyers, the duties of lawyers as officers of the High Court and the duties of lawyers to their clients:

    • (b) in the case of conveyancing practitioners, the duties of conveyancing practitioners to their clients:

    • (c) 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.