Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Appeal against order of Tribunal
(1) Any advocate aggrieved by order of the Tribunal made under section 60 may, within fourteen days after the receipt by him of th…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Reports by Tribunal and action thereon
(1) On the termination of the hearing of a complaint, if the Tribunal does not dismiss the same, the Tribunal shall embody its fin…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Hearing of complaints
(1) The powers conferred on the Committee by this section may be exercised on the hearing of— (a) any application or complaint mad…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Complaints against advocates
(1) A complaint against an advocate of professional misconduct, which expression includes disgraceful or dishonourable conduct inc…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Application for removal of name from the Roll
(1) An advocate may make an application to the Tribunal to procure his name to be removed from the Roll. (2) On the hearing of an…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Establishment of Regional Disciplinary Committees
(1) There are hereby established Disciplinary Committees (in this Part referred to as “Regional Committees”) in five representativ…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Proceedings of Tribunal
(1) The Tribunal may, subject to subsection (2), act as a tribunal of either three or five members, and may require the chairman o…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Establishment of Disciplinary Tribunal
(1) There is established a tribunal to be known as the Disciplinary Tribunal (in this Part referred to as “the Tribunal”) which sh…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Savings of disciplinary powers of Court
Nothing in this Act shall supersede, lessen or interfere with the powers vested in the Chief Justice or any of the judges of the C…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Advocates to be officers of Court
Every advocate and every person otherwise entitled to act as an advocate shall be an officer of the Court and shall be subject to…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Secretary and staff of Commission and rules relating thereto
(1) There shall be a secretary to the Commission who shall be appointed by the Attorney-General. (2) The Attorney-General shall pr…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Remuneration of Commissioner
(1) There shall be paid to the Commissioner such remuneration by way of salary, allowance, pension or gratuity as shall be determi…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Establishment of Complaints Commission
(1) There is hereby established a Complaints Commission (in this Part referred to as “the Commission”) which shall consist of such…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Charging orders
Any court in which an advocate has been employed to prosecute or defend any suit or matter may at any time declare the advocate en…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
General provisions as to taxation
(1) Every application for an order for the taxation of an advocate’s bill or for the delivery of such a bill and the delivering up…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Taxation on application of third parties, beneficiaries under trust, etc.
(1) Where a person other than the person who is the party chargeable with a bill of costs is liable to pay the bill either to the…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Procedure in action where quantum of costs is challenged by defence
Where, in the absence of an agreement for remuneration made by virtue of section 45, a suit has been brought by an advocate for th…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Action for recovery of costs
(1) Subject to this Act, no suit shall be brought for the recovery of any costs due to an advocate or his firm until the expiry of…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Power of court to order advocate to deliver his bill and to deliver up deed
(1) The jurisdiction of the Court to make orders for the delivery by an advocate of a bill of costs, and for the delivery up of or…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Invalid agreements
Nothing in this Act shall give validity to— (a) any purchase by an advocate of the interest, or any part of the interest, of his c…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Agreements with respect to remuneration
(1) Subject to section 46 and whether or not an order is in force under section 44, an advocate and his client may— (a) before, af…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Chief Justice may make orders prescribing remuneration
(1) The Council of the Society may make recommendation to the Chief Justice on all matters relating to the remuneration of advocat…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Offences by bodies corporate
(1) If any act is done by a body corporate or by any director, officer or servant thereof, of such a nature or in such a manner as…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Penalty for failure to disclose fact of having been struck-off, etc.
(1) Any person who, whilst he is disqualified from practising as an advocate by reason of the fact that he has been struck off the…
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