Legal Practitioners.
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 special period.
23. (1) Every such candidate except as provided by section 20 shall, before he can be admitted and enrolled, prove by an affidavit or affidavits of himself and of the solicitor or solicitors practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland or in this Colony 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 required by section 16 as modified by section 17, 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 AND ENROLMENT
of Barristers and Solicitors
and Registration of Notaries Public.
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service.
Evidence of 6 and 7 Vict. c. 73, s. 14; 23 and 24 Vict. c. 127, s. 10.
against practice unless enrolled or admitted,
24. No person shall practise in this Colony as a barrister or as a solicitor unless he has been approved, admitted and enrolled as such by the court, or as a notary public unless he has been registered as such under the provisions of this Ordinance.
25. The court shall have power to approve, admit and enrol as a solicitor any person, being a British subject, who-
(a) has actually exclusively and bona fide served for the period required by sections 16 and 17 as a clerk under articles to any solicitor actually practising in the Colony or part of such period under articles to such solicitor and the other part under articles to any solicitor actually practising in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, or being a barrister has complied with the provisions of section 20, and has been sworn
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registered.
court to admit
Power of the and enrol qualified
solicitors under this Ordinance.