TEN - Who is your client? Identity, Clarity and Certainty - Brisbane

Nola Pearce, Special Counsel will discuss who is your client? Identity, Clarity and Certainty during the Queensland Property Law Conference on 17 February 2016.

Nola will discuss how to identify the correct person as your client as a vital point to avoid conflict. This topic looks at practical issues with identifying the client:

• The importance of determining who is your client - ethics implications
• Identifying who is your client - some practical issues and professional obligation
• Establishing identity - what is required
• Receiving instructions and client identification
• Types of client - family, friends and others
• Can you act for - the whole family, different generations, all the partners of a business, a group of friends?
• Ethics risk with different categories of client
• Case study - the complex matter and client identification.

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