Legal Profession (Solicitors’ Accounts) Rules

1 Citation
2 Definitions
3 Client accounts conveyancing accounts and conveyancing (CPF) accounts
4 Moneys to be paid into client account
5 Splitting of moneys
6 No money other than money under rules 3(1), 4 and 5(3) to be paid into client account
7 Moneys which may be drawn from client account
8 Money from client account — how drawn
9 Where solicitor under no obligation to pay client’s money into client account
10 Transfers between accounts
11 Cash books, ledgers, journals, etc.
11A Engagement of book-keeper
11B (Deleted)
12 Power of Council to require production of books of account, etc.
13 Intimation of costs incurred
14 Requirements of Council — how made
14A Notice given by Council to book-keepers
15 Saving
16 Power to waive provisions
17 Transitional and savings provisions for conveyancing money or anticipatory conveyancing money deposited into client account before 1st August 2011

Legislative History

Intimation of costs incurred
13.  A written intimation of the amount of a solicitor’s costs incurred and a notification to a client that money held for him will be applied as mentioned in rule 7(1)(a)(iv) may be delivered to a client in the same manner as a bill of costs is required to be delivered under section 118 of the Act.