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124 Loss of client legal privilege—joint clients

(1)This section only applies to a civil proceeding in connection with which 2 or more parties have, before the commencement of the proceeding, jointly retained a lawyer in relation to the same matter.
(2)This Division does not prevent one of those parties from adducing evidence of— in connection with that matter.
(a)a communication made by any one of them to the lawyer; or
(b)the contents of a confidential document prepared by or at the direction or request of any one of them—