Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and
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Legal Aid South Africa Act, 2014 (Act No. 39 of 2014)Chapter 4 : Support Structure of Legal Aid South Africa19. Protection of client privilege in certain circumstances |
| (1) | A private legal practitioner who has been instructed by Legal Aid South Africa to represent a person who qualifies for legal aid under this Act must, when requested by Legal Aid South Africa, grant access to the information and documents contained in the file relating to the person in question for the sole purpose of conducting a quality assessment of the work done by the legal practitioner. |
| (2) | The information and documents referred to in subsection (1) remain privileged information against any other party as information between attorney and client, despite having been made available to Legal Aid South Africa. |
