Information for Clients    1. Please download a copy of our Information for Clients. If you cannot obtain a copy, please let us know and we will send this to you by another means. Terms of Engagement - Legal Services in New Zealand    2. These additional Terms of Engagement apply when we provide New Zealand Barrister and Solicitor (Lawyer) services. See our main conditions as well.    3. We will keep your information confidential to the extent required by law and by the Law Society’s Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers.    4. Our duty of care is to you and not to any other person. Before any other person may rely on our advice, we must expressly agree to this.    5. We have procedures in place to identify and respond to conflicts of interest. If a conflict of interest arises we will advise you of this and follow the requirements and procedures set out in the Law Society's Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers. To the extent that our Standard Terms of Engagement are inconsistent with these conflict rules, the Law Society's Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers will prevail.    6. We may terminate our retainer in any of the circumstances set out in the Law Society's Rules of Conduct and Client Care for Lawyers 7.  Trust Accounts a. Acacia Legal operates a trust account for use with certain legal cases. Clients can pay money to be paid into our trust account. Money put into trust will not be taken from the trust account and paid into our general account until the bulk of the work has been completed, for which the money has been paid into the trust account (unless a specific contrary agreement has been made). b. Acacia Legal’s Policy in respect of IBD is as follows: No money shall be put into Interesting Bearing Deposit Account (IBD) if the value of the deposit would be under US$3000. In cases where the value of the deposit will be over US$3000, the money will only be put into IBD where the deposit is likely to be in place for more than 4 weeks (for local clients) or more than 12 months (for overseas clients). We have estimated that placing money in IBD for a lesser amount or a lesser time period will yield a smaller amount in interest than it will cost to transfer money to the client, bearing in mind that transfers to an overseas bank account can cost in the region of NZ$35 (for our bank charge and between US$25 to US$45 for the receiving bank). Acacia Legal will additionally take 5% of the interest accrued as a service fee when transferring funds out of IBD. Clients are responsible for paying Withholding tax and we may be obliged to deduct the withholding tax prior to transferring the balance of the funds. Effective from 26 April 2011 Australia and New Zealand Intellectual Property Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright, Designs, Litigation Acacia Law: Intellectual Property experts in Australia and New Zealand © 2003-2011 Acacia Law