Legal Profession (Group Practice) Rules

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4 Purpose and spirit of group practice

5 Separate liability

6 Name, style and register of group practice

7 Management of group practice

9 Incapacity or death of sole proprietor

Legal Profession (Group Practice) Rules

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Legal Profession Act

(Chapter 161, Section 71(1))

Legal Profession (Group Practice) Rules

R 19

G.N. No. S 103/1999

REVISED EDITION 2001

(31st January 2001)

[1st April 1999]

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Legal Profession (Group Practice) Rules.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“firm” means a firm of advocates and solicitors and includes a sole proprietorship and a partnership of 2 or more advocates and solicitors;

“firm name” means the name or style under which the practice of a firm is being carried on;

“group practice” means a practice comprising 2 or more firms which expressly practise as a group under a group name as separate firms in mutual co-operation;

“manager” means the manager referred to in rule 7.

Application

3. These Rules shall apply to all firms in a group practice and are intended to govern their relationship within the group practice and their dealings with clients and other persons outside the group practice without prejudice to rules of etiquette and professional practice and any other applicable law.

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