Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Apr 2022

No. S 334

Legal Profession Act 1966

Legal Profession
(Professional Conduct)
(Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 71(2) of the Legal Profession Act 1966, the Professional Conduct Council makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 and come into operation on 4 May 2022.

New rule 18A

2. After rule 18 of the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 706/2015), insert —

“Conditional fee agreement

18A.—(1) Rules 17 and 18 do not prevent a legal practitioner or law practice from doing either or both of the following:

(a)	entering into negotiations for, or entering into, a conditional fee agreement that complies with Part 8A of the Act;
(b)	charging a client any remuneration, fee or costs on the basis that the remuneration, fee or costs are payable only in circumstances specified in a conditional fee agreement mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a) that is entered into or intended to be entered into between the client and the legal practitioner or law practice.

(2) To avoid doubt, apart from the aspects mentioned in paragraph (1), rules 17 and 18 continue to apply in all other aspects to any remuneration, fee or costs charged or to be charged pursuant to a conditional fee agreement mentioned in paragraph (1)(a).”.

[G.N. Nos. S 69/2017; S 82/2018; S 240/2022]

Made on 11 April 2022.

SUNDARESH MENON

Chairperson,
Professional Conduct Council.

[SUPCT.RNJ.007.0000; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2015/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 185 of the Legal Profession Act 1966).

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