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provides that client legal privilege is lost for confidential communications made and documents prepared in furtherance of a fraud, an offence, or an act that renders a person liable to a civil penalty or a deliberate abuse of statutory power. Subclause (2) provides that if the commission of a fraud, offence or act referred to in subclause (1) is a fact in issue in the proceeding and there are reasonable grounds for finding that it was committed and for finding that the communication or document was made or prepared in the furtherance of the commission of the fraud, offence or act, the court may find that the communication was so made or the document so prepared as the case may require.