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Failure to comply with rules
Cap. 320, s. 29 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) If an attorney fails to comply with any of the rules made under section 28, any person may make a complaint in respect of that failure to the Council.
rules.
(2) The provisions of Part III shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to complaints to the Council under this section.
(3) Where on any complaint made under this section the Council finds the attorney commits professional misconduct, the Council may–
(a) make an order as to the keeping or distribution of any money standing to the credit of any account kept by the attorney for clients’ money as the Council thinks proper in the circumstances of the case; or
(b) any order as the Council thinks proper in the circumstances of the case.
(4) The Chief Justice shall, upon a recommendation made by the Council under sub-section (3), make an order as he thinks proper in the circumstances of the case.
Amended by: 22 of 2014
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