## CAP. 159]
Solicitors' Practice Rules
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
professional business in contentious matters at less than the scale fixed by Rules of Court or by any other enactment or in any other matters at less than such scale as may from time to time be fixed by any enactment or by the Society.
4. Sharing with non-qualified persons
A solicitor shall not share or agree to share with any person not being a solicitor practising in the Colony, or a solicitor or other duly qualified legal agent practising in the United Kingdom or in some other part of the Commonwealth, his profit costs in respect of any business whether by way of paying or agreeing to pay a commission on business introduced by any such person not being a solicitor, or otherwise:
Provided that-
(a) a solicitor carrying on practice on his own account may agree to pay an annuity or other sum out of profits to a retired partner or predecessor or the dependants or legal personal representative of a deceased partner or predecessor; and
(b) a solicitor who has agreed in consideration of a salary to do the legal work of an employer who is not a solicitor may agree with such employer to set off his profit costs received in respect of contentious business from the opponents of such employer or the costs paid to him as the solicitor for such employer by third parties of non-contentious business, against the salary so paid or payable to him and the reasonable office expenses incurred by such employer in connection with such solicitor and to the extent of such salary and expenses.
4A. Supervision of office
A solicitor shall ensure that every office where he or his firm practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards—
(a) every such office shall be managed by a solicitor holding a practising certificate who shall normally be in attendance at that office during all the hours when it is open to the public; and (b) every such office shall be attended on each day when it is open to the public by a solicitor who holds a practising certificate and has been admitted for at least 2 years, being either a principal of, or a solicitor employed by, the firm and who shall spend sufficient time at such office to ensure adequate control of the staff employed there and afford requisite facilities for consultation with clients.
(L.N. 307 of 1979)