Notes:
Trust Accounts - release of funds; entitlements to money (R4523 March 2008) - An award of legal costs by the Appeal Costs Board may raise issues of entitlements where the appellant is deceased and a third party initially provided funds for the appeal ; Bankruptcy - Joint instructions; release of information (R4530 March 2008) - A firm must obtain instructions from both clients to release documents where they acted in joint matters, unless there is a legal obligation on a firm to produce client information to the trustee in bankruptcy ; Family - Conflice of interest; firm merger (R4537 March 2008) - the theoretical risk of disclosure or misuse of confidential information may require a practitioner./firm to cease acting against a former client in a family law or de facto matter