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Section 138 Duty of Edinburgh solicitor in Bills of Suspension

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(1)

This rule and rules 134 to 136 apply to Bills of Suspension and of Suspension and Liberation.

(2)

An Edinburgh solicitor who requests a first deliverance shall comply with the require-ments of rule 136(1) and (2) whether or not he is so nominated for the purposes of legal aid.

(3)

The Clerk of Justiciary shall in appropriate cases inform such a solicitor who has not been so nominated of the requirements of the rules where appropriate.