Part II Right to Practise as a Solicitor

Practising Certificates

20 Council’s duty to supply lists of solicitors holding practising certificates.

1

The Council shall send a list of all solicitors holding practising certificates for the practice year then current—

a

to the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland; F1 . . .

F2ab

to the Principal Clerk of Session;

b

to each sheriff clerk;

as soon as practicable after 1st December in each year.

F32

The Council shall send a list of all solicitors who have rights of audience in—

a

the Court of Session, to—

i

the Principal Clerk of Session;

F4ii

the Supreme Court;

iii

the Registrar to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;

and

b

the High Court of Justiciary, to the Principal Clerk of Justiciary,

as soon as practicable after 1st December in each year; and where, by virtue of an order under section 53(2)(ba), F5. . . or 55(1)(ba) F6or (bb), a solicitor’s right of audience in any of those courts is suspended or revoked, the Council shall forthwith inform the persons mentioned in this subsection of that fact.

3

The Council shall notfiy those persons to whom they have sent lists under this section of any changes in those lists.