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Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I might take a moment to thank all the Deputies for the contributions they have made and amendments they have proposed, not just today but on other days as well. All the Deputies with responsibility for the justice area have done a great deal of work in this House and in committee since this Bill was published in 2011. I thank them for their constructive approach to this Stage of the Bill....

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 78a:In page 78, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:“Report on operation etc., of multi-disciplinary practices 99. (1) The Authority shall, no later than 6 months following the establishment day, make a report (“initial report”) to the Minister on the establishment, regulation, monitoring, operation and impact of multi-disciplinary...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 80a:In page 79, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:“Review of operation of this Part 100. (1) The Authority shall—(a) not later than 4 years after the commencement of section 84, and every 5 years thereafter, commence a review of the operation of this Part, insofar as it relates to legal partnerships, and (b) not later than 1 year after the...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82a:In page 87, to delete lines 11 to 19 and substitute the following:“Review of scales of fees 110. The Superior Courts Rules Committee shall, whenever it considers it appropriate to do so and, in any case, not less than once every 2 years, review the scales of fees for contentious and non-contentious business set out in Appendix W to the Rules of the Superior...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82b:In page 88, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:“(6) A Legal Costs Adjudicator shall provide such information on his or her activities as the Chief Legal Costs Adjudicator may, for the purpose of discharging his or her functions under sections 111 and 112 and this section, require.”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82c:In page 90, to delete lines 26 and 27 and substitute the following:“(c) shall, subject to paragraph (b), be eligible for re-appointment or to have the term of appointment extended, but shall not hold office for periods the aggregate of which exceeds 10 years.”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82d:In page 99, line 7, after “direct,” to insert “including the manner in which notice is to be given,”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82e:In page 108, line 20, to delete “at the Bar”.The purpose of amendments Nos. 82eand 82fis the straightforward matter of my concern that the phrase "at the Bar" might imply that a lawyer, in order to gain the title of senior counsel, must already be, or must at some time become, a member of the Law Library. Deputies will be aware that from the time of the...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82f:In page 108, line 23, to delete “at the Bar”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82g:In page 108, line 33, to delete “subsection (1)(b) and section 142,” and substitute “subsection (1)(b), section 142 and section 143,”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82h:In page 109, to delete lines 23 and 24.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82i:In page 110, to delete lines 4 to 6 and substitute the following:“(ii) either or both of the following—(I) a capacity for advocacy, or (II) a capacity for specialist litigation or a specialist knowledge of an area of law,”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 82j:In page 112, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“Solicitor granted Patent while barrister 143. A solicitor to whom, before the commencement of this section and while he or she was a barrister, a Patent was granted, shall be entitled to use the title of “Senior Counsel”.”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 61a:In page 71, to delete lines 16 to 19 and substitute the following:“ “contentious matter” means a matter that arises in, and that relates to the subject matter of, proceedings before any court, tribunal or other body or person before which the respective legal rights and obligations of two or more parties are determined, to which the person...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 61b:In page 71, line 24, to delete “persons” and substitute “individuals”.This group of amendments tightens up the governance of the new legal practice models, namely, legal partnerships and multidisciplinary practices. This will be subject to public consultation under the amendment taken earlier today in this area. Amendment No. 61bprecludes...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 66a:In page 71, after line 35, to insert the following:“Notification of Authority of commencement, cessation of provision of legal services by a legal partnership 87.(1) A legal partnership that intends to provide legal services—(a) shall notify the Authority, in accordance with subsection (3), of that fact, and (b) shall not provide such services until it...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 66b:In page 71, after line 35, to insert the following:“Legal partnership to have professional indemnity insurance 88.(1) A legal partnership shall not provide legal services unless there is in force, at the time of the provision of such services, a policy of professional indemnity insurance which adequately covers the legal partnership in the provision of those...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 68a:In page 72, line 24, to delete “The following” and substitute “Subject to subsection (5), the following”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 68b:In page 72, line 35, to delete “solicitors.” and substitute “solicitors;”.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (22 Apr 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move amendment No. 68c:In page 72, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:“(d) a person who is an unqualified person; (e) a person who, having been a qualified barrister, is disbarred (other than a person who has procured himself to be disbarred with a view to being admitted as a solicitor); (f) a person who, being a solicitor in another jurisdiction, is not a solicitor...