92 (1) The Corporation shall establish a quality assurance program to ensure that it is providing high quality legal aid services in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Quality assurance audits (2) For the purpose of subsection (1) and subject to subsection (8), the Corporation may conduct quality assurance audits of the service-providers, clinics, student legal aid services societies or other entities funded by the Corporation that provide legal aid services. Powers (3) For the purpose of conducting a quality assurance audit, an employee of the Corporation may enter the office of a service-provider who is providing or has provided legal aid services, or the office of a clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation, during normal business hours and on notice to the service-provider, clinic, society or other entity, and may, despite subsections 37 (3) and (4), review their records with respect to the provision of legal aid services. Co-operation required (4) Every student and service-provider, and every employee of a clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation shall co-operate with the employee of the Corporation or of the Law Society conducting a quality assurance audit even if that requires the production of information or documents that are privileged or confidential. Privileged preserved for other purposes (5) Subsections (3) and (4) do not negate or constitute a waiver of a privilege. Confidentiality (6) The Corporation and its employees shall keep confidential any information obtained in a quality assurance audit. Same (7) The Corporation and its employees are governed by the rules of solicitor-client confidentiality with respect to any legal communications obtained in a quality assurance audit. Law Society to conduct audits of lawyers (8) The Corporation shall not itself conduct quality assurance audits of lawyers who provide legal aid services but shall direct the Law Society to conduct those quality assurance audits. Law Society may conduct other audits (9) The Corporation may delegate to the Law Society its power to conduct quality assurance audits on the persons listed in subsection (2), or any of them. Law Society’s audits governed by regulations (10) The Law Society shall conduct quality assurance audits under a direction or delegation under this section, as directed or delegated by the Corporation and in accordance with the regulations. Reimbursement (11) The Law Society shall be reimbursed by the Corporation for its costs of conducting quality assurance audits. Report to Corporation (12) The Law Society shall report to the Corporation on the quality assurance audits conducted by it, as directed or delegated by the Corporation and in accordance with the regulations, and shall include in its reports the information required by the direction, delegation or regulations, whether or not such information is governed by the rules of solicitor-client confidentiality, but shall not disclose any information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. Same (13) Subsections (3), (4) and (5) apply with necessary modifications to the Law Society and its employees with respect to quality assurance audits of lawyers in the same manner as they apply to the Corporation and its employees.  1998, c. 26, s. 92.