LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 91 Definitions

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 91

91 Definitions

(1) In this Part, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:

"associate", in relation to a solicitor, has the same meaning as it has in Part 6.

"expenses", in relation to a receivership, means:

(a) the remuneration payable to the receiver,

(b) the expenses incurred in the course of the receivership,

(c) the costs of legal proceedings involved in the receivership, or

(d) any reimbursement of the receiver under section 109.

"firm of solicitors" includes any solicitors who share remuneration as solicitors, whether or not on the same basis for each of them.

"property", in relation to a solicitor, means:

(a) money or other property that could, in accordance with Part 7, be the subject of a pecuniary loss for which compensation would be payable from the Fidelity Fund,

(b) interest, dividends or other income or profits or any other property derived from money or property or acquired with money,

(c) documents and records of any description relating to anything referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) or to the practice of the solicitor, or

(d) any means by which any records referred to in paragraph (c) that are not written may be reproduced in writing.

"receivable property" means property of a solicitor or an associate of a solicitor that is the subject of an order appointing a receiver.

"receiver" means a receiver appointed by the Supreme Court under section 92.

"relevant associate" means an associate of a solicitor of whose property a receiver has been appointed under section 92 (5).

"relevant solicitor" means a solicitor of whose property a receiver has been appointed.

"solicitor" includes:

(a) a firm of solicitors,

(b) a former solicitor,

(c) in relation to anything done or omitted to be done by a solicitor--a deceased solicitor or deceased former solicitor, and

(d) except in relation to anything done or omitted to be done by a solicitor--the personal representative of a deceased solicitor or deceased former solicitor.

(2) A reference in this Part to the practice of a solicitor who is an interstate legal practitioner is a reference to the solicitor's practice in this State.