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Article: Companies call on Law Society to do better
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- July 15, 2007
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Draft code of conduct forgets to mention client care MANY OF New
Zealand's biggest public companies are calling on lawyers to do more
to protect client rights in a new code of professional conduct due to
come into force next year.
Legal counsel for 60 companies, including Telecom and Fonterra,
say the Law Society's draft code documents make virtually no mention
of client care.
Instead, the society's proposed implementation of last year's
Lawyers and Conveyancing Act is almost exclusively focussed on
internal structural issues, they say.
In an open letter to the Law Society, counsel also representing
government organisations including the auditor-general's office, say
lack of any ...