{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/47",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-act-1974",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of Senior Courts over solicitors.",
  "text": "(1) Any person duly admitted as a solicitor shall be an officer of the Senior Courts; ...\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the High Court, the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal respectively, or any division or judge of those courts, may exercise the same jurisdiction in respect of solicitors as any one of the superior courts of law or equity from which the Senior Courts were constituted might have exercised immediately before the passing of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 in respect of any solicitor, attorney or proctor admitted to practise there.\n(3) An appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal from any order made against a solicitor by the High Court or the Crown Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction in respect of solicitors under subsection (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 21(5)(a); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 21(5)(b); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 50(3) inserted by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 147"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 50 side-note: words substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 21(5)(a); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1873 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 50(2)(3) extended (22.5.2000) by S.I. 2000/1119, regs. 1, 37(3), Sch. 4 para. 10 (as amended (1.7.2009) by The Legal Services Act 2007 (Registered European Lawyers) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1587), art. 3(10))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 50(2)(3) applied (1.1.2025) by The Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland etc.) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1379), regs. 1(4), 25"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/47/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:05.522324+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}