National Legal Profession Reform

We are committed to keeping you up-to-date on the National Legal Profession Reform process currently underway.

This national reform of the legal profession forms part of COAG’s micro-economic and regulatory reform across Australia. On 30 April 2009, the Prime Minister announced the appointment of a National Legal Profession Taskforce, chaired by Roger Wilkins AO, Secretary of the Federal Attorney-General’s Department.

The Taskforce will consult to produce draft national legislation for uniform laws to regulate the legal profession by April 2010.

This reform has potentially wide-ranging impacts across the nation and certainly for the Queensland legal profession, and so there are many issues to consider.

For your reference, we are providing relevant discussion papers and information sources to keep you informed about activities in the legal reform process. This will include the following:

• The Legal Profession Reform Taskforce
• The National Legal Profession Reform Consultative Group
• The Law Council of Australia’s response