TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology-based legal document generation services and the regulation of legal practice in Australia
AU - Beames, Emma
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - This article examines, in the Australian context, the status of technology-based legal document generation services provided directly to the public, where the service provider is not a lawyer or law practice. A brief overview of how legal practice is regulated, what legal practice is and who can engage in it under Australian law is provided to consider the circumstances where this type of service may amount to the unauthorised practice of law.
AB - This article examines, in the Australian context, the status of technology-based legal document generation services provided directly to the public, where the service provider is not a lawyer or law practice. A brief overview of how legal practice is regulated, what legal practice is and who can engage in it under Australian law is provided to consider the circumstances where this type of service may amount to the unauthorised practice of law.
KW - legal document providers
KW - Unauthorised practice of law
KW - unauthorized practice of law
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1037969X17732709
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85036574460&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1037969X17732709
DO - 10.1177/1037969X17732709
M3 - Article
SN - 1037-969X
VL - 42
SP - 297
EP - 303
JO - Alternative Law Journal
JF - Alternative Law Journal
IS - 4
ER -