[LEP 107] Waiver of privilege or duty of confidentiality107 

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(1) If a client of a legal practitioner or a law firm makes a complaint about the legal practitioner or the law firm, the complainant is taken to have waived legal professional privilege or the benefit of any duty of confidentiality, to enable the legal practitioner or the law firm to disclose to the Registrar or the Commission 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.