We will collect personal information from you in the course of providing our legal services. We may also obtain personal information from third party searches, other investigations and sometimes, from adverse parties.
We are required by law to collect your full name and address in order to comply with the trust account record keeping requirements and to comply with our duty to the courts and other government agencies such as the Land Registry Service.
Your personal information will only be used for the purposes for which it is collected or in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). For example, we may use your personal information to provide advice and recommendations that take into account your personal circumstances.
If you do not provide us with the full name and address information required by law, we cannot act for you. If you do not provide us with the other personal information that we request, our advice may be wrong for you or misleading.
Depending on the nature of your matter, the types of bodies that we may disclose your personal information to include courts, the other party or parties to litigation, experts and barristers, Revenue NSW, PEXA Limited, the Land Registration Service and third parties involved in the completion or processing of a transaction.
We do not disclose your information overseas unless your instructions involve dealing with parties located overseas. If your matter involves parties overseas we may disclose select personal information to overseas recipients associated with that matter in order to carry out your instructions.