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Legal Profession Act 1976 s 85

Legal Profession Act 1976 s 85

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s 85 Registrar to maintain register of firm names

(1) The Bar Council shall maintain a register of firm names under which advocates and solicitors practise. No firm name shall be registered or struck off the register without a certificate from the Bar Council. The Bar Council may refuse a certificate for registration on the grounds that the proposed firm name is likely to be confused with a registered firm name or is likely to mislead the public. An advocate and solicitor who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Bar Council may appeal to the High Court whose decision shall be final. (2) No person shall practise as an advocate and solicitor under a name that is notβ€” (a) his own name; (b) the names of advocates and solicitors who are or were his partners; (c) the names of his predecessors whose goodwill he has, or his partners have, acquired; (d) any one or the combination of the names specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c). (3) In any case where a name which complies with subsection (2) cannot be registered without contravening subsection (1) then the person may practise under such name as he wishes which is approved by the Bar Council. (4) An advocate and solicitor who acts in contravention of subsection (3) may be liable to disciplinary proceedings. (5) The Bar Council shall, at the request of the partners practising under a firm name, and may, if it is satisfied that no one is practising under that name, remove a firm name from the register.

Read this section in the full act β†’ Β· Open Part VI β†’

Find Act 166 on lom.agc.gov.my β†—

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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