Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) (Amendment) Rules 2006

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 08 Dec 2006

No. S 665

Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161)

Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) (Amendment) Rules 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11 of the Second Schedule to the Legal Profession Act, the Council of the Law Society of Singapore, with the concurrence of the Chief Justice, hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

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

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) Rules (R 18) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “firm” in the definition of “complaint” and substituting the words “law practice”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “mediator” and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definitions:

“ “law firm” has the same meaning as in the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules (R 1);

“law practice”, in relation to a solicitor, means the solicitor’s law firm, a law corporation of which the solicitor is a director or an employee or a limited liability law partnership of which the solicitor is a partner or an employee.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

3. The Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) Rules are amended by deleting the word “firm” in rules 7(1) and 8(1)(b) and substituting in each case the words “law practice”.

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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