QUESTION: Am I giving legal advice when I use www.LawCentral.com.au? ANSWER: The author of all legal documents at LawCentral is the lawyer that puts the document up at LawCentral. The lawyer keeps copyright in the document. No one else is legally the author. The lawyer has the sole control and ownership of that document. Therefore, the answer to your question is usually no. It is the lawyer that provides the document on the website. It is the lawyer that has created the logic flow and set up the questions. It is the lawyer that has written all the hints to explain how the document works. The lawyer puts the document up at LawCentral so that a locked PDF document is created. That document is locked so that it can not be altered. That gives the lawyer confidence that the client can NOT alter the document. An altered document may destroy the effect of the document. Law firms can only put their documents up at LawCentral if they provide a minimum of $1.5m worth of the law firm's Professional Indemnity insurance on each and every legal document created at LawCentral. The person that puts in the answers to the questions on the web site is just a mere scribe. If you are only a mere scribe - ie filing in forms and questions - then generally you are not giving legal advice. "... the court held that work of the mere clerical kind, such as filling out of skeletal blanks ... should be generally regarded as the legitimate right of any layman because it involves nothing more or less ...
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