Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

The Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules are subsidiary regulations made under the Legal Practitioners Act in Nigeria. They govern how legal practitioners must receive, hold, manage, and account for clients’ money in the course of legal practice.

Legal practitioners are expected to have three kinds of accounts. These are the Client Account, Trust Bank Account, and Personal, firm or partnership account. The rules are as follows:

Part I – Interpretation

Rule 1 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 2 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Part II – Client Accounts

Rule 3 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 4 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 5 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 6 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 7 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 8 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 9 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 10 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 11 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 12 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Part III – Trust Bank Accounts

Rule 13 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 14 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 15 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 16 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 17 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 18 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 19 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 20 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Part IV – Inspection and Enforcement

Rule 21 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 22 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Part V – Exemption, The Schedule

Rule 23 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964