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Introductory Text
PART I Right to Practise as Solicitor
Qualifications and training
1.Qualifications for practising as solicitor
2.Training regulations
Admission
3.Admission as solicitor
4.Admission of certain overseas solicitors
5.Restrictions on admission of overseas solicitors
The roll
6.Keeping of the roll
7.Entry of name and restoration of name struck off
8.Removal or restoration of name at solicitor's request
Practising certificates
9.Applications for practising certificates
10.Issue of practising certificates
11.Fees payable on issue of practising certificates
12.Discretion of Society with respect to issue of practising certificates in special cases
13.Appeals in connection with issue of practising certificates
14.Date and expiry of practising certificates
15.Suspension of practising certificates
16.Duration of suspension of practising certificates
17.Publicity in relation to suspension of practising certificates
18.Evidence as to holding of practising certificates
Rights and privileges of solicitors
19.Rights of practising and rights of audience
Unqualified persons acting as solicitors
20.Unqualified person not to act as solicitor
21.Unqualified person not to pretend to be a solicitor
22.Unqualified person not to prepare certain instruments
23.Unqualified person not to act in preparation of papers for probate, etc.
24.Application of penal provisions to body corporate
25.Costs where unqualified person acts as solicitor
26.Time limit for commencement of certain proceedings
27.Saving for persons authorised to conduct legal proceedings
Supplementary
28.Regulations
29.Non-British subjects as solicitors
30.Evidence as to solicitors in Scotland
PART II Professional Practice, Conduct and Discipline of Solicitors and Clerks
Practice rules
31.Rules as to professional practice, conduct and discipline
Accounts etc.
32.Accounts rules and trust accounts rules
33.Interest on clients' money
34.Accountants' reports
Intervention in solicitor's practice, Compensation Fund and professional indemnity
35.Intervention in solicitor's practice
36.Compensation Fund
37.Professional indemnity
Restrictions on practice as solicitor
38.Solicitor who is justice of the peace not to act in certain proceedings
39.Solicitor not to act as agent for unqualified person
40.Solicitor not to commence or defend actions while in prison
Restrictions on employment of certain persons
41.Employment by solicitor of person struck off or suspended
42.Failure to disclose fact of having been struck off or suspended
43.Control of employment of certain clerks
44.Offences in connection with orders under section 43(2)
Lay observers
45.Investigation by lay observers of Society's treatment of complaints
Disciplinary proceedings before Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
46.Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
47.Jurisdiction and powers of Tribunal
48.Orders of Tribunal
49.Appeals from Tribunal
Disciplinary proceedings before Supreme Court
50.Jurisdiction of Supreme Court over solicitors
51.Procedure upon certain applications to High Court
52.Power of Society to draw up order of court
53.Production of order of court to Society
Disciplinary proceedings—general
54.Restrictions on powers to strike names off roll
55.Applications to require solicitor to answer allegations
PART III Remuneration of Solicitors
Non-contentious business
56.Orders as to remuneration for non-contentious business
57.Non-contentious business agreements
58.Remuneration of a solicitor who is a mortgagee
Contentious business
59.Contentious business agreements
60.Effect of contentious business agreements
61.Enforcement of contentious business agreements
62.Contentious business agreements by certain representatives
63.Effect on contentious business agreement of death, incapability or change of solicitor
64.Form of bill of costs for contentious business
65.Security for costs and termination of retainer
66.Taxations with respect to contentious business
Remuneration—general
67.Inclusion of disbursements in bill of costs
68.Power of court to order solicitor to deliver bill, etc.
69.Action to recover solicitor's costs
70.Taxation on application of party chargeable or solicitor
71.Taxation on application of third parties
72.Supplementary provisions as to taxations
73.Charging orders
74.Special provisions as to contentious business done in county courts
75.Saving for certain enactments
PART IV Miscellaneous and General
The Society
76.Non-practising solicitors eligible for membership of Society
77.Annual subscription to Society
78.Cessation and suspension of membership of Society
79.Committees of the Council
80.Powers to act on behalf of Society
Miscellaneous
81.Administration of oaths and taking of affidavits
82.Qualification for holding office of solicitors who have been barristers
83.Power of Society to inspect file of proceedings in bankruptcy of solicitor
84.Service of documents at solicitor's place of business
85.Bank accounts
86.Bankers' books
Supplementary
87.Interpretation
88.Saving for solicitors to public departments and City of London
89.Consequential amendments, repeals, savings, etc.
90.Short title, commencement and extent
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Intervention in Solicitor's Practice
PART I Circumstances in which Society may Intervene
1.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the powers conferred by Part...
2.On the death of a sole solicitor paragraphs 6 to...
3.The powers conferred by Part II of this Schedule shall...
4.(1) Where the powers conferred by Part II of this...
PART II Powers Exercisable on Intervention
Money
5.(1) The High Court, on the application of the Society,...
6.(1) Without prejudice to paragraph 5, if the Council pass...
7.(1) If the Society takes possession of any sum of...
8.Without prejudice to paragraphs 5 to 7, if the High...
Documents
9.(1) The Society may give notice to the solicitor or...
Mail
10.(1) The High Court, on the application of the Society,...
Trusts
11.(1) If the solicitor or his personal representative is a...
General
12.The powers in relation to sums of money and documents...
13.Subject to any order for the payment of costs that...
14.Where an offence under this Schedule committed by a body...
15.Any application to the High Court under this Schedule may...
16.The Society may do all things which are reasonably necessary...
SCHEDULE 2
The Compensation Fund
1.The fund shall be maintained and administered by the Society...
2.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), every solicitor—
3.The Society may invest in securities in which trustees are...
4.Subject to the provisions of section 1 of the Borrowing...
5.The Society may insure with authorised insurers for such purposes...
6.There shall be carried to the credit of the fund—...
7.All money from time to time forming part of the...
SCHEDULE 3
Consequential Amendments
1.In section 3(3) of the Forgery Act 1913, in paragraph...
2.In section 216(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation)...
3.In section 88 (5) of the Patents Act 1949, for...
4.In section 20(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act...
5.In Part III of Schedule 1 to the House of...
6.In section 192(2) of the County Courts Act 1959 (as...
7.In section 1(2) of the Barristers (Qualification for Office) Act...
8.In section 4(2) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1967, for...
9.In section 223(1) of the Local Government Act 1972, for...
10.In Schedule 2 to the Legal Aid Act 1974, in...
SCHEDULE 4
Enactments Repealed