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Clients of another attorney

Legal Profession (Code Of Conduct) Rules, r. 7 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) An attorney shall not endeavour by direct or indirect means to attract the clients of another attorney, and where one attorney refers a client to another attorney, the client remains for all other purposes the client of the referring attorney and the attorney to whom the client is referred shall act with due deference to the relationship between the client and the referring (2) Where a referred client offers other work to the attorney to whom he was referred and the offer is sufficiently proximate in time to the referral, that attorney shall not accept that offer unless it has been brought to the attention of the referring
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