Valid from 01/10/2009
Solicitors Act 1974 (c. 47)U.K.
21(1)The Solicitors Act 1974 is amended as follows.
(2)In section 6 (keeping of the roll) in subsection (1) for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”.
(3)In section 19 (rights of practising and rights of audience)—
(a)in subsection (1)(a) for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”;
(b)in subsection (2) omit “section 94 of the Supreme Court Act 1981,”.
(4)In section 29 (non-British subjects as solicitors) for “of the Supreme Court or of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland” substitute “ of the Senior Courts or of the Court of Judicature ”.
(5)In section 50 (jurisdiction over solicitors)—
(a)in the side-note and subsection (1) for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”;
(b)in subsection (2) for “Supreme Court was” substitute “ Senior Courts were ”.
(6)In section 87 (interpretation) in the definitions of “contentious business”, “the roll”, and “solicitor” for “Supreme Court” substitute “ Senior Courts ”.