4. Paragraph 3 shall not empower the court to take a decision contrary to a particular provision of a legal provision applicable to the registered legal practice. (3) The appointment may be made generally or in relation to a particular licensed law firm or a particular examination. (1) This clause applies to proceedings relating to the external administration (however expressed) of a registered law firm, but not to proceedings to which section 24 applies. 31 — Obligations of unaffected family members (b) the administration of the provision of legal services by the licensed law firm (including the supervision of officers and employees providing the services). (5) If a corresponding Act prohibits a company from providing legal services in another jurisdiction, the regulatory authority may decide that it is prohibited from providing legal services in that jurisdiction for the same period, but nothing in this subsection prevents the regulator, Attorney General or company from making an order under that jurisdiction instead. Clause. (a) if there are 2 or more legal directors of a registered law firm – the firm was a partnership of the general counsel and the employees of the firm were employees of the general counsel; or Subject to this Act, a registered law firm may operate in partnership with another registered law firm or a lawyer (or both). 3. On application, the court may allow a registered law firm to be a party to an agreement or arrangement referred to in paragraph 1, subject to conditions laid down by the court. 1. A company may not, without reasonable excuse, represent or advertise that it is a registered law firm unless notice has been given in respect of the company in accordance with subsection 4. (a) the legal practitioners employed by the registered law firm have not committed the conduct or misconduct referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1; or 2.
Where a restriction referred to in paragraph 1 is limited to a particular branch of the legal profession or to persons practising in a particular type of legal practice, the restriction shall apply only to the extent that the registered law firm carries on business in that branch of the legal profession or in that type of legal practice. 6. Prohibition on representing that a company is a registered law firm (1) A registered law firm must have at least 1 bar director. (a) a person whose name (whether or not at his request) has been removed from the list of lawyers maintained under this Law or from the list maintained in a participating State corresponding to the list maintained under this Law and who has not subsequently been admitted or readmitted to the profession of lawyer under this Law or any equivalent law; (2) The regulatory body, the Attorney General and the company have the right to intervene in the proceeding unless the court finds that the proceeding does not affect the provision of legal services by the registered law firm. 16. Extension of the liability of enforcement agents for non-invoicing, payment or delivery and dishonesty to registered law firms 3. A regulation may provide that a breach of the rules may constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct on the part of a lawyer or lawyer responsible for the offence, or both. (2) Each general counsel of a registered law firm is responsible, solely for the purposes of this Act, for the administration of legal services provided by the registered law firm in that jurisdiction. (1) Before a corporation commences legal activity in that jurisdiction, it shall notify the Supreme Court in writing in the approved form and with such fees as may be prescribed that it intends to do so. (1) The Supreme Court may, on the application of the regulatory body, the Attorney General or the company, exclude a corporation from the provision of legal services in that jurisdiction for such period as it considers appropriate, if the court is satisfied that, (7) The court shall inform the Commissioner and the incorporated law firm at whose request a hearing is to be held, at least 7 days before the date and place on which the Commissioner intends to hold the hearing, and must give the Commissioner and any person a reasonable opportunity to summon and testify, to hear witnesses and to make statements to the Court. (a) a firm of registered law firms or registered law and law firms, if the firm: (c) the registered law firm (or any related corporation) has contravened clause 2; 7. The appointment of a person under this paragraph to perform the functions or duties of a general counsel shall not delegate or impose on that person, for any other purpose, the other functions or obligations of a director of the registered law firm.
(d) may be taken into account in disciplinary proceedings against legal directors or other persons or in connection with the issuance, amendment, suspension or cancellation of lawyer`s certificates. (i) in-house legal services, i.e. legal services to the Company in connection with a proceeding or transaction in which the Company (or a related legal entity) is involved; (4) A review may be conducted regardless of whether a complaint has been made against a lawyer in relation to the provision of legal services by the registered law firm. (1) A registered law firm violates this clause if it does not have lawyers for a period of more than 7 days. 4. A registered law firm to which this clause applies and which, after the expiry of the 28-day period referred to in subsection (2), commences in that territory in partnership with another registered law firm or solicitor (or both) without giving notice under this subsection, shall not be in default with this clause until it notifies the Supreme Court in writing in the approved form, failure to comply with this subparagraph and the fact that it continues to operate in partnership with another registered law firm or a lawyer (or both).