Part 6Conduct of practice by practitioners
Barristers and King’s Counsel
118BRestrictions on practice of specified category of lawyers who hold rank
A person who holds the rank of King’s Counsel, and who when appointed to that rank was in the category in section 118A(1),—
- must not practise, or in the course of his or her practice provide regulated services, as a barrister and solicitor, or in partnership with any other lawyer; and
- must not be actively involved in the provision by an incorporated law firm (other than one in which he or she is the only voting shareholder) of regulated services; and
- must not be an employee (other than an employee of an incorporated law firm in which he or she is the only voting shareholder) who, in the course of his or her employment, provides regulated services; but
- is not precluded, by reason only of the fact that he or she holds that rank, from being a statutory officer.
Subsection (1) is subject to sections 118C(5) and 118D(4), but overrides other provisions of this Act.
A person who is subject to, and who contravenes, subsection (1) must be treated as having surrendered at the time of the contravention the rank of King’s Counsel.
Notes
- Section 118B: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 92).