Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Employment by advocate of persons struck-off the Roll or suspended
(1) No advocate shall, in connection with his practice as an advocate, without the written permission of the Council of the Societ…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
No costs recoverable where unqualified person acts as advocate
No costs in respect of anything done by an unqualified person in contravention of this Part shall be recoverable in any suit or ma…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Advocate not to act as agent for unqualified person
Any advocate who acts as agent in any suit, or in any matter in bankruptcy, for any unqualified person, or permits his name, or th…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Touts
(1) Any unqualified person who, in consideration of any payment or other advantage to himself or any other person, procures or att…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Sharing profits
Any advocate who agrees to share his profits in respect of any professional business, whether contentious or non-contentious, with…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Undercutting
(1) Any advocate who holds himself out or allows himself to be held out, directly or indirectly and whether or not by name, as bei…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Instruments to be endorsed with name and address of drawer
(1) Every person who draws or prepares, or causes to be drawn or prepared, any document or instrument referred to in section 34 (1…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Unqualified person not to prepare certain documents or instruments
(1) No unqualified person shall, either directly or indirectly, take instructions or draw or prepare any document or instrument— (…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Penalty for pretending to be advocate
Any unqualified person who wilfully pretends to be, or takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is,…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Standards of work and remuneration
(1) The Chief Justice shall, on the recommendation of the Council of the Society, prescribe— (a) the standards of work that may be…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Employment as in-house Advocate
(1) A person who is qualified to act as an advocate under this Act may be employed as an in-house advocate. (2) A person who is em…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Qualification for practice on own behalf
(1) Notwithstanding that an advocate has been issued with a practising certificate under this Act, he shall not engage in practice…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Unqualified person not to act as advocate
(1) Subject to section 83, no unqualified person shall act as an advocate, or as such cause any summons or other process to issue,…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Evidence as to holding of practising certificate
(1) Any list purporting to be published by authority of the Registrar and to contain the names of advocates who have obtained prac…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Publication of suspension or termination of suspension of practising certificate in certain cases
Where an advocate’s practising certificate has become suspended— (a) by an order under section 26(2); or (b) by virtue of section…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Duration of suspension of practising certificate
(1) Subject to this section, where a practising certificate has become suspended by an order under section 26(2) or by virtue of s…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Suspension of practising certificate in certain circumstances
The making by the Disciplinary Committee or the Court of an order suspending an advocate from practice shall operate, and the adju…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Appeals in connection with issue of practising certificate
(1) If in any case, not being a case to which section 25 applies, the Registrar on an application duly made to him refuses or negl…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Discretion of Registrar to issue practising certificate in special cases
(1) Subject to subsection (3) and to section 28(5), subsection (2) shall have effect where an advocate applies for a practising ce…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Date and validity of practising certificate
(1) Every practising certificate shall bear the date of the day on which it is issued and shall have effect from the beginning of…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Issue of practising certificate to confer membership of Society
(1) Every advocate to whom a practising certificate is issued under this Part shall thereupon and without payment of any further f…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Application for and issue of practising certificate
(1) Application for a practising certificate shall be made to the Registrar— (a) by delivering to him an application in duplicate,…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Registrar to issue practising certificates
The Registrar shall issue in accordance with, but subject to, this Part and any rules made under this Act certificates authorizing…
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Advocates Act CAP 16▤
Precedence
The Attorney-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Solicitor General, Senior Counsel or Queen’s Counsel according to t…
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