| 1. | There are also protections for information subject to legal professional privilege.
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| 2. | The ALRC recommends extending legal professional privilege to non-judicial proceedings.
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| 3. | Legal professional privilege may be waived unilaterally by the client.
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| 4. | One of these rights is legal professional privilege.
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| 5. | These provisions do not override legal professional privilege.
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| 6. | Legal professional privilege in Australia is found in common law and in various statutes.
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| 7. | Legal professional privilege is not absolute and it does not attach to a communication indefinitely.
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| 8. | Both sources reflect the two limbs of legal professional privilege : advice privilege and litigation privilege.
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| 9. | The rationale for legal professional privilege in an Australian context has been explained in the following ways:
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| 10. | However, the Court of Appeal confirmed in 2005 that PoCA does not override legal professional privilege.
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