LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 679 Establishment of Queensland Law Society

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 679

679 Establishment of Queensland Law Society

(1) The body corporate in existence before 1 July 2004 by the name of the Queensland Law Society Incorporated as continued in existence under that name by the Legal Profession Act 2004 , section 508 , is continued in existence under this Act.

(2) The body may continue to refer to itself or be referred to as the Queensland Law Society.

(3) The law society—

(a) is a body corporate; and

(b) has perpetual succession; and

(c) has a common seal; and

(d) may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(4) All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the imprint of the law society’s seal appearing on a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume the seal was properly affixed.