Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) (Amendment) Rules 2015

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No. S 696

Legal Profession Act

(CHAPTER 161)

Legal Profession
(Inadequate Professional Services
Complaint Inquiry)
(Amendment) Rules 2015

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, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) (Amendment) Rules 2015 and come into operation on 18 November 2015.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Legal Profession (Inadequate Professional Services Complaint Inquiry) Rules (R 18) is amended by deleting the definitions of “law firm” and “law practice” and substituting the following definition:

“ “law practice”, in relation to a solicitor, means —

(a)	a law firm of which the solicitor is the sole proprietor, a partner or an employee;
(b)	a law corporation of which the solicitor is a director or an employee; or
(c)	a limited liability law partnership of which the solicitor is a partner or an employee;”.

Made on 9 November 2015.

THIO SHEN YI, SC

President,
Council of the Law Society of Singapore.

[LS/10/LPA(A)/LSRA/2015/KG; AG/LEGIS/SL/161/2015/17 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 131 (renumbered as section 185 from 18 November 2015) of the Legal Profession Act).