Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations

RULES OF PRACTICE 1994

- (S.R. 1994, NO. 229)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      1. Short title
   2.      2. Commencement
   3.      3. Interpretation

   PART 2 - Professional practice and conduct Division 1 - Place and
   conduct of business

   4.      4. Attendance at practice
   5.      5. Sharing of premises and carrying on another business
   6.      6. Firm names and professional description

           Division 2 - Advertising and attracting business

   7.      7. Advertising
   8.      8. Attracting business in offensive manner

           Division 3 - Mediation and arbitration

   9.      9. Restrictions relating to mediation and arbitration

           Division 4 - Relationship and dealings between practitioner and
           client

   10.     10. Conduct of business
   11.     11. Disclosure of information and interest
   12.     12. Acting for more than one party
   12A.    12A. Practitioner member of statutory tribunal
   13.     13. Advice on costs
   14.     14. Advice on settlement

           Division 5 - Dealings with legal aid clients

   15.     15. Eligibility for legal aid
   16.     16. Changes in circumstances

   PART 3 - Accounting rules Division 1 - Receipts

   17.     17. Receipt books
   18.     18. Receipts
   19.     19. Numbering and identification of receipts
   20.     20. Duplicate receipts

           Division 2 - Payments

   21.     21. Payment of trust money
   22.     22. Cheques
   23.     23. Cheque butts
   24.     24. Details of cheque butts
   25.     25. Details of cheque requisitions

           Division 3 - Cash books and bank deposit books

   26.     26. Trust account cash book
   27.     27. Receipts
   28.     28. Payments
   29.     29. Trust bank deposit books

           Division 4 - Trust ledger account

   30.     30. Trust ledger account
   31.     31. Details of trust ledger account
   32.     32. Receipts
   33.     33. Payments

           Division 5 - Journals

   34.     34. Transfer journal

           Division 6 - Bank statements

   35.     35. Trust bank account bank statements

           Division 7 - Reconciliations

   36.     36. Reconciliation of trust records

           Division 8 - Withdrawals from and payments to trust bank account

   37.     37. Withdrawal of money
   38.     38. Receipt of money
   39.     39. Payment of costs and expenses
   40.     40. Limit on withdrawal of money

           Division 9 - Money in transit

   41.     41. Money in transit
   42.     42. Money in transit ledger

           Division 10 - Computer accounting systems

   43.     43. Computer accounting systems
   44.     44. Journals maintained on a computer system
   45.     45. Trust ledger account maintained on a computer system
   46.     46. Manner of keeping records on a computer system

           Division 11 - Trust account inspectors

   47.     47. Appointment of trust account inspectors
   48.     48. Assistant trust account inspector
   49.     49. Bank accounts
   50.     50. Examinations
   51.     51. Documents for examination
   52.     52. Report to Council
   53.     53. Letters to clients
   54.     54. Privilege
   55.     55. Production of documents
   56.     56. Obstructing a trust account inspector
   57.     57. Unauthorized disclosure

           Division 12 - Miscellaneous

   58.     58. Maintenance of accounting records
   59.     59. Exemptions

   PART 4 - Solicitors' Guarantee fund

   60.     60. Designated trust deposit account
   61.     61. Bills of exchange

   PART 5 - Money for mortgage investment Division 1 - Mortgages and
   securities

   62.     62. First mortgage
   63.     63. Second mortgage
   64.     64. Contributory mortgage
   65.     65. Securities
   66.     66. Security valuation

           Division 2 - Controlled fund operators

   67.     67. Controlled fund operator
   68.     68. Control of fund operators by practitioners
   69.     69. Controlled fund operators that are corporations
   70.     70. Controlled fund operators that are not corporations
   71.     71. Investments by controlled fund operators
   72.     72. Deregistration of controlled fund operators

           Division 3 - Liability of related firms

   73.     73. Liability of members of related firms

           Division 4 - Books of account

   74.     74. Books of account

   PART 6 - Indemnity cover

   75.     75. Indemnity cover schemes
   76.     76. Indemnity cover during negotiations
   77.     77. Payment of indemnity cover
   78.     78. Provision of information

   PART 7 - Remuneration Division 1 - General provisions relating to
   remuneration

   79.     79. Sharing of profits
   80.     80. Charging of commission
   81.     81. Restrictions on litigation loans

           Division 2 - Remuneration relating to non-contentious business

   82.     82. Remuneration
   83.     83. Application of Division
   84.     84. Election to enter cost agreement
   85.     85. Fee for work done
   86.     86. Recommended scale of charges
   87.     87. Negotiation fee

   PART 8 - Barristers

   88.     88. List of barristers
   88A.    88A. Professional indemnity insurance
   89.     89. Title and work of barrister
   89A.    89A. Instructions from persons not legal practitioners
   90.     90. Professional conduct
   91.     91. Fees
   92.     92. Variation of fees
   93.     93. Recovery of fees
   94.     94. Acceptance of briefs
   95.     95. Ceasing to act
   96.     96. Drafting of pleadings
   97.     97. Reporting of cases

   PART 9 - Miscellaneous

   98.     98. Lists of practitioners
   99.     99. Rescission
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