Rules Regulating the Practice and Etiquette of the Singapore Bar

Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161, Section 71)

R 1

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[20th November 1936]

PART I

PRACTICE RULES

1. In proceedings in which an advocate and solicitor is engaged for one or more parties and whose name appears on the Court record accordingly, no advocate and solicitor representing other parties or another party shall enter-up judgment by default against the client or clients of the first mentioned advocate and solicitor or take advantage of delay in pleading by such first mentioned advocate and solicitor unless he shall have given to such first mentioned advocate and solicitor written notice of his intention to do so, and 24 hours shall have elapsed after the delivery of such notice to the first mentioned advocate and solicitor.

2. If an extension of time within which to plead be given to a party he shall, if so required, accept short notice of trial at the next sittings of the Court in any case in which had the pleading been delivered in the time ordinary limited for its delivery without any extension, the party allowing the extension would have been in a position to have given notice of trial for such sittings.

3. If an order drawn by an advocate and solicitor is amended by an advocate and solicitor for any other party or parties and the advocate and solicitor who drew the order or any other advocate and solicitor concerned is unwilling to accept the draft order as amended, the party seeking to take out the order shall within a reasonable time take out an appointment to settle the order. Any advocate and solicitor making any amendment in an order drawn by another advocate and solicitor shall initial such alteration.

4. Objections to items in a bill of costs shall be explained by marginal notes, or by abbreviations showing the nature of the objections, e.g. “q” for quantum, “p” principle, and so on.

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