Victorian Numbered Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION AMENDMENT ACT 2007 (NO. 12 OF 2007)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Purpose  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  
   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Outline of Chapter 2  
   6.      Workplace agreements and conveyancing work  
   7.      Presumptions about taking or using certain names, titles or descriptions  
   8.      Prohibitions regarding associates  
   9.      Admission to the legal profession  
   10.     Local practising certificates  
   11.     New section 2.4.14 substituted  
   12.     Conditions of local practising certificates  
   13.     Amending, suspending or cancelling practising certificate  
   14.     New section 2.4.24 substituted  
   15.     Complaints about Australian legal practitioners  
   16.     Show cause events  
   17.     New section 2.4.34 substituted  
   18.     Review of local practising certificate decisions  
   19.     New section 2.4.41 inserted  
   20.     New section 2.6.1A inserted  
   21.     Removal from roll  
   22.     New section 2.6.6A inserted  
   23.     New sections 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 substituted  
   24.     Peremptory cancellation of local practising certificate following removal from interstate roll  
   25.     New sections 2.6.10A and 2.6.10B inserted  
   26.     Further amendments regarding foreign regulatory action  
   27.     Incorporated legal practices and multi-disciplinary partnerships  
   28.     Foreign lawyers  
   29.     New section 2.8.25 substituted  
   30.     Further foreign lawyer amendments  
   31.     New section 2.8.46 substituted  
   32.     Legal profession rules  
   33.      Trust money and trust accounts  
   34.     New section 3.3.9 substituted  
   35.     Receiving and dealing with trust money  
   36.     New section 3.3.14A inserted  
   37.     New section 3.3.15A inserted  
   38.     Transit money and trust money subject to specific powers  
   39.     New section 3.3.17A inserted  
   40.     Further trust money and trust account amendments  
   41.     New section 3.3.71 substituted  
   42.     New section 3.3.73 substituted  
   43.     Costs disclosure and review definitions  
   44.     New section 3.4.2A inserted  
   45.     Costs disclosure  
   46.     New section 3.4.16 substituted  
   47.     Further costs amendments  
   48.     New section 3.4.18A inserted  
   49.     New section 3.4.21 substituted  
   50.     Costs agreements  
   51.     New section 3.4.28 substituted  
   52.     Contingency fees  
   53.     Setting aside costs agreements  
   54.     Billing  
   55.     New section 3.4.36 substituted  
   56.     New section 3.4.38 substituted  
   57.     Costs reviews  
   58.     New section 3.4.42 substituted  
   59.     Procedure on costs review  
   60.     Criteria for costs review  
   61.     New sections 3.4.44A and 3.4.44B inserted  
   62.     Costs of review  
   63.     Contracting out of Division by sophisticated clients  
   64.     Fidelity cover  
   65.     Complaints and discipline  
   66.     External intervention  
   67.     New section 5.5.17 substituted  
   68.     Appeal against appointment  
   69.     New section 5.6.5A inserted  
   70.     New section 5.6.6 substituted  
   71.     Immunity for Board members  
   72.     Keeping the register  
   73.     Immunity for Commissioner and others  
   74.     Fidelity Fund  
   75.     Injunctions  
   76.     Confidentiality of personal information  
   77.     Legal Services Board elections  
   78.     Transitional provisions  
   79.     New Part 12 inserted in Schedule 2  
   80.     Consequential amendment of Conveyancers Act 2006  
   81.     Repeal of Act  
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