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Under rule of law, it is wise to act in a strict and fair manner. Under certain conditions, a person may be exempted to be admitted, provided that they have been employed by such practising solicitor or solicitors during the period of five years required by this Ordinance, and that he has not during such period held any office or been engaged in any employment whatsoever other than the employment of clerk to such solicitor or solicitors and his or their partner or partners, if any, in the business, practice, or employment of a solicitor and proctor.
(2.) The affidavit shall be in such form as may be approved of by the Chief Justice.
Admission of Barristers, Solicitors, Proctors, and Public Notaries.
20. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, no person shall practise in this Colony as a barrister, solicitor, or proctor unless he has been approved, admitted, and enrolled by the Court, or as a public notary unless he has been registered, under the provisions of this Ordinance: Provided always that it shall not be necessary for a person already admitted and enrolled by the Court to practise as a barrister, solicitor, or proctor to be re-admitted or re-enrolled under this Ordinance, and every person now practising as a public notary in the Colony shall be allowed one month from the commencement of this Ordinance, or, if absent, from the date of his return to the Colony, within which to become registered, and shall during such period be exempt from the operation of this section and of section 27.
21. The Court shall have power to approve, admit, and enrol such persons as have been admitted barristers or advocates in Great Britain or Ireland to practise as barristers, and such persons as have been admitted as attorneys, solicitors, or writers in one of the Courts at London, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or as proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, to practise as solicitors and proctors, in the Court.
22. Every person who desires to be admitted under the last preceding section to practise in the Court in any of the capacities therein mentioned shall deposit with the Registrar his certificate of call to the bar or of his admission as an attorney, solicitor, writer, or proctor, and shall file in the Court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice; Provided always that the Chief Justice may, on special grounds and on such conditions as he may think proper, exempt any such person from complying with the formalities prescribed by this section, either absolutely or for any specified period.
Enrolment of English or Irish barrister or solicitor, advocate or writer, and proctor.
Certificate of call or admission to be deposited with Registrar and affidavit of identity to be filed.
23. The Court shall have power to admit and enrol as a solicitor and proctor of the Court any person, being a British subject, who has actually, exclusively, and bona fide served for the period of five years as a clerk under articles to any solicitor actually practising in the Colony or part of such period of five years under articles to such solicitor and the other part in the Colony and in ...
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