Rule 7 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 7 of the Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964 is under Part II (Client accounts). It provides as follows:

There may be drawn from a client account:

(a) in the case of a client’s money:
(i) money properly required for a payment to or on behalf of the client;

(ii) money properly required for or towards payment of a debt due to the legal practitioner from the client which the client has acknowledged in writing or any reimbursement of money expended by the legal practitioner on behalf of the client of which notification in writing has been given to the client;

(iii) money drawn on the client’s authority; and

(iv) money properly required for or towards payment of the legal practitioner’s costs where a bill of costs or other written intimation of the amount of the costs incurred has been delivered to the client and the client has been notified in writing that money held for him will be applied towards or in satisfaction of such costs;

(b) in the case of trust money:
(i) money properly required for a payment in the execution of the particular trust, and

(ii) money to be transferred to a separate bank account kept solely for the money of the particular trust;

(c) such money, not being money to which either paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this Rule applies as may have been paid into the account under paragraph (b) or paragraph (d) of Rule 4 of these Rules, and

(d) money which may by mistake or accident have been paid into the account in contravention of Rule 6 of these Rules;

Provided that in any case under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this Rule the money so drawn shall not exceed the total of the money held for the time being in such account on account of such client or trust.