1 Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023

Paragraph 1 of the Legal Practitioners Remuneration (For Business, Legal Service And Representation) Order 2023 is about Regulation of remuneration generally. It provides as follows:

(1) The remuneration of a legal practitioner for business and service rendered shall in respect of-
(a) any consultation and legal opinion, be as prescribed in Scale 1 set out
in the Schedule to this Order:
(b) incorporations, or registration of Companies and Business Names be as prescribed in Scale 2 set out in the Schedule to this Order;

(c) litigation, be as prescribed in Scale 3 set out in the Schedule to this Order;
(d) property transactions, including Mortgages and related transactions, be as prescribed in Scale 4 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Without prejudice to any arrangement reached between a legal practitioner and his client on a percentage-based fee in respect of commercial or other transaction or service not covered in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph, the remuneration of a legal practitioner shall be as prescribed in Scale 5 set out in the Schedule to this Order,

provided that no percentage-based fee arrangement shall be lower than the minimum hourly rate prescribed in Scale 5 of the Schedule to this Order.

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