Rule 8 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 8 of the Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964 is under Part II (Client accounts). It provides as follows:

(1) No money drawn from a client account under sub-paragraph (ii) or sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (a), or under paragraph (c) of Rule 7 of these Rules shall be drawn except by:

(a) a cheque drawn in favour of the legal practitioner, or

(b) a transfer to a bank account in the name of the legal practitioner not being a client account.

(2) No money other than money permitted by Rule 7 to be drawn from a client account shall be so drawn unless the Bar Council upon an application made to them by the legal practitioner specifically authorise in writing its withdrawal.