Legal Profession Act(CHAPTER 161)
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
Part II ADMISSION OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
Board of Legal Education
3 Establishment of Board of Legal Education
4 Purposes of Board
5 General powers of Board
6 Power of Minister and Board as to recognition of foreign qualifications
7 Constitution of Board
8 Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Secretary
9 Meetings of Board
Qualified persons
10 Admission of advocates and solicitors
11 Qualifications for admission
12 Periods of pupillage
13 Service of pupillage
14 Admission of Malayan practitioners
15 Admission of Hong Kong practitioners
16 Petitions for admission under sections 10(1) and 14(1)
17 Petitions for admission under section 14(2)
18 Service of documents and objections
19 Caveats and misrepresentations
20 Ad hoc admissions
Reviews
21 Review of Board’s decisions
Hearing of petitions and the roll
22 Hearing
23 Declaration duty and the roll
Part III PRACTISING CERTIFICATES
24 Practising certificates
25 Disqualification for practising certificate
26 Register of practitioners
27 Cancellation of practising certificates
Part IV PRIVILEGES OF ADVOCATES AND SOLICITORS
28 Privileges of advocates and solicitors
29 Qualifications to practise
30 Unauthorised person acting as advocate or solicitor
31 Qualifications to section 32
32 No costs recoverable by unauthorised person
Part V THE LAW SOCIETY OF SINGAPORE
33 Establishment of Society
34 Purposes and powers of Society
35 Visitors
Members of the Society and subscriptions
36 Membership
37 Practising solicitors to be members
38 Non-practitioner members
39 Honorary members
40 Privileges of membership
41 Expulsion and suspension of rights and privileges
42 Termination of qualification
43 Annual subscription to Society
The Council
44 Council
45 Statutory members
46 Elected members
Election of members of Council
47 Compulsory voting
48 Elections
49 Nominations
50 Insufficient nominations
51 Council’s term of office
52 Casual vacancies
Officers
53 President and Vice-President
54 When members of Council to vacate office
Powers of Council
55 General powers of Council
56 Specific powers of Council
57 Appointment of committees of Council
58 Power of Council to inspect files of proceedings in bankruptcy of solicitor
59 Power of Council to accept gifts
60 Representation in court
Proceedings of Council
61 Meetings of Council
62 Expenses of members
63 Proceedings of Council, its staff and Inquiry Committee to be secret
General meetings of the Society
64 Annual general meeting
65 Extraordinary general meetings
66 Voting
67 Convening and procedure
Part VI PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE OF SOLICITORS AND CLERKS
68 Rules as to professional practice, etiquette, conduct and discipline
69 Rules as to keeping of accounts by solicitors
70 Accountant’s report
71 Intervention in solicitor’s practice
72 Compensation fund
73 Solicitors who are commissioners for oaths or notaries public
74 Solicitor not to act as agent for any unauthorised person
75 Solicitors’ clerks
76 Acting for housing developer and purchaser prohibited
77 Account by solicitor
78 Interim certificate
Part VII DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS
79 Jurisdiction of Supreme Court over solicitors
80 Power to strike off the roll or suspend or censure
81 Appointment of Inquiry Panel
82 Applications and complaints
83 Inquiry
84 Council’s consideration of report
85 Council’s power to order penalty
86 Application to appoint a Disciplinary Committee
Disciplinary Committee
87 Appointment of Disciplinary Committee
88 Proceedings and powers of Disciplinary Committee
89 Person who made the complaint etc.
90 Findings of Disciplinary Committee
91 Society to apply to court
92 Provisions as to penalties
93 Procedure for complainants dissatisfied with Council’s decision
94 Procedure for complainants dissatisfied with a Disciplinary Committee’s decision
95 Order to show cause
96 Drawing up of order
97 Solicitor’s application to remove own name
98 Adverse orders to be noted on roll
99 Replacement on roll of solicitor who has been struck off
100 Costs
101 Absence of person concerned
102 Provisions as to evidence
103 No action in absence of bad faith
Part VIII REMUNERATION OF SOLICITORS
104 Prohibition of certain stipulations
105 Orders as to remuneration of solicitors for non-contentious business
106 Agreements with respect to remuneration for non-contentious business
107 Remuneration of a solicitor who is a mortgagee
Contentious business
108 Agreement as to costs for contentious business
109 Effect of agreements with respect to contentious business
110 Enforcement of agreements
111 Death or incapability of solicitor after agreement
112 Change of solicitor after agreement
Part IX RECOVERY AND TAXATION OF COSTS
113 Definition of solicitor in this Part
114 Charging orders
115 Solicitor not to commence action for fees until one month after delivery of bills
116 Court may authorise action for recovery of fees before expiration of one month after delivery of bills
117 Order for taxation of delivered bill of costs
118 Costs of order for taxation fixed at $25
119 Time limit for taxation of bills of costs
120 Petitions for taxation to contain a submission to pay
121 Order for delivery of bill of costs to be obtained as of course
122 Solicitor to deliver copy of bill of costs
123 Preparation of bills of costs as between solicitor and client
124 Interest in respect of disbursements and advances
125 Costs of taxation how to be borne
126 Interest on client’s money
127 Costs of Government
Part X MISCELLANEOUS
128 General provision as to rules
129 Offices of Board and Society
130 Service of documents
131 Recovery of moneys by Society
132 Rules Committee to prescribe fees
133 Relief to banks
134 Income tax exemption
135 Transfer of names to roll
136 Saving
Legislative History