LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.
No. 1 of 1871.
99
6 & 7 Vict.
19.—(1) Every such candidate shall, before he can be admitted and enrolled, prove by an affidavit of himself or of due service under the solicitor or solicitors practising in Great Britain or Ireland to whom he was bound, to be duly made and filed in the court, that he has actually and really served and 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.
(2) The affidavit shall be in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice.
Admission of barristers, solicitors, and notaries public.
20. No person shall practise in this Colony as a barrister or solicitor unless he has been approved, admitted, and enrolled by the court, or as a notary public unless he has been registered under the provisions of this Ordinance.
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 to practise as attorneys, solicitors or proctors in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as solicitors in the court.
[cf. No. 10 of 1931, s. 75 (2).]
22. Every person who desires to be admitted under section 21 to practise in the court in any of the capacities therein mentioned—
(a) if a barrister or advocate, shall deposit with the Registrar his certificate of call to the bar, and shall file in the court an affidavit of identity in such form as may be approved by the Chief Justice;
(b) if an attorney, solicitor or proctor, shall give four months' previous notice in writing to the Registrar and to...
As amended by No. 13 of 1931 [15.5.31] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.