Paragraph 54 I1

England and Wales

(1)

Section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (management and control by solicitors of incorporated practices) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)(a)—

(a)

after the word “solicitors", where it first occurs, there shall be inserted “ or solicitors and one or more registered foreign lawyers" ”; and

(b)

at the end there shall be inserted “ or by multi-national partnerships" ”.

(3)

In subsection (8), the following definitions shall be inserted at the appropriate places—

“multi-national partnership” means a schedule 20partnership whose members consist of one or more registered foreign lawyers and one or more solicitors;
“registered foreign lawyer” means a person who is registered under section 89 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990.

Annotations

I1: Sch. 18 para. 54 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I. 1991/1883, art. 3, Sch.