Legal Profession (Publicity) Rules - Singapore Statutes Online

Legal Profession Act

(CHAPTER 161, Section 71(1))

Legal Profession (Publicity) Rules

R 13

G.N. No. S 533/1998

REVISED EDITION 2000

(31st January 2000)

[1st December 1998]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Publicity) Rules.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“firm” means a firm of advocates and solicitors and includes a sole-proprietorship, a partnership of 2 or more advocates and solicitors, and any other form of legal entity by which advocates and solicitors are permitted by law to practise;

“publicity” means any form of advertisement and includes any advertisement —

(a)	printed in any medium for the communication of information;
(b)	appearing in, communicated through or retrievable from, any mass medium, electronic or otherwise; or
(c)	contained in any medium for communication produced or for use by a firm,

and its derivatives, and “publicise”, “publicised” and “publicising” shall be construed accordingly.

Application

3. These Rules shall apply to every advocate and solicitor, whether he is practising as a principal in private practice or in partnership or association with, or in the employment of, another advocate and solicitor .

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