Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If a client of an
Australian legal practitioner makes a complaint about the practitioner, the
complainant is taken to have waived legal professional privilege, or the
benefit of any duty of confidentiality, to enable the practitioner to disclose
to the Complaints Committee or the State Administrative Tribunal any
information necessary for dealing with or investigating the complaint.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), any information so disclosed may be used in or in
connection with any procedures or proceedings relating to the complaint.