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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 492

Prerequisites to making of compensation orders

(1)  Unless the complainant and the Australian legal practitioner concerned agree, a compensation order is not to be made unless the person or body making it is satisfied –
(a) that the complainant has suffered loss because of the conduct concerned; and
(b) that it is in the interests of justice that the order be made.
(2)  A compensation order is not to be made in respect of any loss for which the complainant has received or is entitled to receive –
(a) compensation received or receivable under an order that has been made by a court; or
(b) compensation paid or payable from the Guarantee Fund, or a corresponding fund of any other jurisdiction, where a relevant claim for payment from the fund has been made or determined; or
(c) compensation paid or payable from a professional indemnity insurance policy.



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