Legal Council aims to better protect Lawyer’s Clients
A Bill seeking to enhance the conduct of attorneys at law, and the quality of service they provide, was tabled in the Senate on April 27. Tabled by the Minister of Justice, Senator the Hon. Mark Golding, the Bill, entitled ‘An Act to amend the Legal Profession Amendment Act’, contains provisions empowering the General Legal Council to take specified actions to protect money, property or documents of an attorney’s clients.
According to the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons, the Bill requires institutions holding funds for an attorney’s clients to pay over such funds to the Council to be deposited in a special account for the benefit of the clients; empower the Council to obtain a Court Order to require the redirection of postal articles (originally destined for an attorney’s address) to an...