Court of Chancery (Ireland) Act, 1823

Officers and clerks shall not practise as solicitors or attornies.

Penalty, 200l.

12. . . . It shall not be lawful for any person who shall be hereafter appointed to hold any of the offices of the said court mentioned and specified in any of the tables to this Act annexed, or who shall hereafter be appointed a deputy or clerk to any person who now holds or shall hereafter hold any office, to act or practise, either in his own name or in the name of any other person or persons, as an attorney or solicitor in any of the courts of law or equity in Ireland; and every such officer or person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person in partnership with or in trust for him, act as such attorney or solicitor, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, shall, for every time he shall so act, forfeit the sum of two hundred pounds.