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Legal Profession Act 1966 s 155

Legal Profession Act 1966 s 155

s 155 Effect of company becoming law corporation

155.—(1) A law corporation is authorised to do anything that a solicitor can do by law and is required to do all that a solicitor is required to do by law.[40/2014] (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the doing of anything that can only be done by a solicitor as a natural person.[40/2014] (3) A regulated legal practitioner who provides legal services as a director or employee of a law corporation is subject to the same standards of professional conduct and competence in respect of such services as if he or she were personally providing the legal services as a regulated legal practitioner in a law firm.[40/2014] (4) The mere fact that a regulated legal practitioner personally provides legal services as a director or employee of a law corporation does not affect the personal liability of that regulated legal practitioner at law.[40/2014]

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