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[Subsidiary] Further
CAP. 159]
Solicitors' Accounts Rules
[1979 Ed.
restrictions on drawings from
client account.
Exceptions.
Obligation to keep accounts.
8. (1) No money drawn from a client account under rule 7(a)(ii) or (iv), (c) or (d) shall be drawn except by-
(a) a cheque drawn in favour of the solicitor; or
(b) a transfer to a bank account in the name of the solicitor
not being a client account.
(2) No money other than money permitted by rule 7 to be drawn from a client account shall be so drawn unless the Committee, upon an application in writing made to it by the solicitor, specifically authorizes in writing its withdrawal.
9. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of these rules, a solicitor shall not be under obligation to pay into a client account client's money held or received by him which-
(a) is received by him in the form of cash and is without delay paid in cash in the ordinary course of business to the client or to a third party; or
(b) is received by him in the form of a cheque or draft which is endorsed over in the ordinary course of business to the client or to a third party and is not passed by the solicitor through a bank account; or
(c) he pays into a separate bank account opened or to be opened in the name of the client or of some person named by the client.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of these rules, a solicitor shall not pay into a client account client's money held or received by him which-
(a) the client for his own convenience requests the solicitor to
withhold from such account; or
(b) is received by him for or towards payment of a debt due to the solicitor from the client or in reimbursement of money expended by the solicitor on behalf of the client; or
(c) is paid to him expressly on account of costs incurred, in respect of which a bill of costs or other written intimation of the amount of the costs has been delivered, or as an agreed fee, or on account of an agreed fee, for business undertaken or to be undertaken.
(3) Where a cheque or draft includes other client's money as well as client's money of the nature described in paragraph (2), such cheque or draft shall be dealt with in accordance with rule 5.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of these rules, the Committee, upon an application in writing made to it by a solicitor, may specifically authorize the solicitor in writing to withhold any client's money from a client account.
10. (1) Every solicitor shall at all times keep properly written up such books and accounts as may be necessary-