6 Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023

Paragraph 6 of the Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023 is about Security against remuneration interest on disbursement. It provides as follows:

(1) A legal practitioner may accept from his client, and the client may give to his legal practitioner, security for the amount to become due to the legal practitioner for business or services to be transacted by him and for interest on such amount but such interest shall not commence till the amount due is ascertained, either by agreement or taxation.

(2) A legal practitioner may charge interest at 10 per cent per annum on his disbursement and cost whether by scale or otherwise, after the expiration of one month of demand from the client; and where the disbursement and cost are payable by an infant or out of a fund not presently available, the demand may be made on the parent, guardian, trustee or other person liable.

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