LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 77
Special provision about interstate legal practitioner engaging in unsupervised legal practice in this jurisdiction
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 77
Special provision about interstate legal practitioner engaging in unsupervised legal practice in this jurisdiction
77 Special provision about interstate legal practitioner engaging in
unsupervised legal practice in this jurisdiction
(1) An interstate legal practitioner must not engage in unsupervised
legal practice in this jurisdiction unless—
(a) if the practitioner
completed supervised legal training to qualify for admission to the legal
profession—the practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent to
18 months supervised legal practice, worked out under a regulation, after the
date the practitioner’s first practising certificate was granted; or
(b) if
the interstate legal practitioner completed other practical legal training to
qualify for admission to the legal profession in this or another
jurisdiction—the practitioner has undertaken a period or periods equivalent
to 2 years supervised legal practice, worked out under a regulation, after the
date the practitioner’s first practising certificate was granted.
(2)
However, subsection (1) —
(a) does not apply if the interstate legal
practitioner is exempt from the requirement for supervised legal practice in
the practitioner’s home jurisdiction; or
(b) applies to the interstate
legal practitioner only to the extent of a shorter period if the required
period of supervised legal practice has been reduced for the practitioner in
the practitioner’s home jurisdiction.
(3) In this section—
"supervised legal training" means practical legal training principally under
the supervision of an Australian lawyer, whether involving articles of
clerkship or otherwise.