Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 2002
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Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1960. |
7.—The Act of 1960 is hereby amended in section 3 (as amended by section 24 of the Act of 1994) by the substitution, for paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of “misconduct”, of the following paragraphs: | |
“(c) the contravention of a provision of the Solicitors Acts, 1954 to 2002, or any order or regulation made thereunder, | ||
(d) in the course of practice as a solicitor— | ||
(i) having any direct or indirect connection, association or arrangement with any person (other than a client) whom the solicitor knows, or upon reasonable enquiry should have known, is a person who is acting or has acted in contravention of section 55 or 56 or section 58 (which prohibits an unqualified person from drawing or preparing certain documents), as amended by the Act of 1994, of the Principal Act, or section 5 of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 2002, or | ||
(ii) accepting instructions to provide legal services to a person from another person whom the solicitor knows, or upon reasonable enquiry should have known, is a person who is acting or has acted in contravention of those enactments, | ||
(e) any other conduct tending to bring the solicitors' profession into disrepute.”. |