LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE. 1964. (No. 16 of 1964).
SOLACTIORS' PRACTICE RULES, 1964.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1964, the Committee of the Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong, with the approval of the Chief Justice, has made the following rules-
ment.
I. These rules may be cited as the Solicitors' Practice Rules, Citation and 1964, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the com- Commence- mencement of section 73 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1964. (16 of 1964).
2. A solicitor shall not directly or indirectly apply for or seek Prohibition instructions for professional business or do or permit in the carrying against
Louting, etc. on of his practice any act or thing which can reasonably be regarded as touting or advertising or as calculated to attract business unfairly.
3. A solicitor shall not hold himself out or allow himself to be Foe cutting- held out directly or indirectly and whether or not by game as being prepared to do 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,
persons.
4. A solicitor shall not share or agree to share with any person Sharing with not being a solicitor practising in the Colony, or a solicitor or other non-qualified 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 always 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
(6) 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 50 paid or payable to him and the reasonable office expenses incurred by such employer in connexion with such solicitor and to the extent of such salary and expenses,
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