Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Trustee Companies Act 1984 - SECT 54

Testators may appoint their own lawyers

54. Testators may appoint their own lawyers













(1) Where by any will a testator directs that an Australian legal practitioner
shall conduct the legal business of the estate of the testator, an Australian
legal practitioner shall be entitled to act accordingly, but in such a case
the trustee company concerned shall not be liable for the negligence,
misfeasance, nonfeasance or misconduct of the practitioner, and the
practitioner may be removed by order of the Supreme Court upon the application
of the trustee company or of any person interested in the estate upon cause
shown, and then and in such case the Supreme Court may appoint the legal
practitioner of the trustee company.

(2) In this section, Australian legal practitioner has the same meaning as in
the Legal Profession Act 2004.