Legal Profession (Publicity) (Amendment) Rules 2006

No. S 663

Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161)

Legal Profession (Publicity) (Amendment) Rules 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 71 of the Legal Profession Act, the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, with the approval of the Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Publicity) (Amendment) Rules 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2007.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Legal Profession (Publicity) Rules (R 13) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by deleting the definition of “law firm” and substituting the following definition:

“ “law firm” and “law practice” have the same meaning respectively, as in the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules (R 1);”.

Amendment of rule 3

3. Rule 3 of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “corporation” at the end thereof, the words “or a limited liability law partnership”.

Amendment of rule 4

4. Rule 4 of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “the law corporation”, the words “or limited liability law partnership”.

Amendment of rule 6

5. Rule 6 of the principal Rules is amended by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(3) Nothing in these Rules shall be interpreted as permitting the doing of anything by —

(a)	an advocate and solicitor;
(b)	a law corporation or a director or an employee of a law corporation; or
(c)	a limited liability law partnership or a partner or an employee of a limited liability law partnership,

which may reasonably be regarded as touting.”.

Amendment of rule 9

6. Rule 9 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting the comma at the end of paragraph (b) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(c)	a limited liability law partnership or a partner or an employee of a limited liability law partnership may allow the practice of the limited liability law partnership,”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “, law firm or law corporation” in the last line and substituting the words “or law practice”.

Miscellaneous amendments

7. The principal Rules are amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “a director or an employee” wherever they appear in the following provisions, the words “or a limited liability law partnership of which he is a partner or an employee”:

Rules 4, 5(1) and (2), 6(1) and (2)(f), 7(1), 8(2)(a), 10(3)(a) and (b) and 11(1) and (2);

(b)

by deleting the words “law firm or the law corporation” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “law practice”:

Rules 5(1), 6(1)(b) and 7(2)(d);

(c)

by deleting the words “law firm or law corporation” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “law practice”:

Rules 5(3) and (5), 6(1)(c) and (d) and 8(1) and (2); and

(d)

by deleting the words “or a law firm or a law corporation” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “or a law practice”:

Rules 7(1)(c) and 8(2) and (3).

[G.N. No. S 411/2001]

Made this 1st day of December 2006.

PHILIP JEYARETNAM

President,
Council of the Law Society of Singapore.

[AG/LEG/SL/161/2002/1 Vol. 3]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 131 of the Legal Profession Act).

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