Rule 19 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 19 of the Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964 is under Part III (Trust accounts). It provides as follows:

Notwithstanding the provisions of these Rules a legal practitioner shall not be under obligation to pay into a trust bank account money held or received by him which is received by him either in the form of cash which is without delay paid in cash in the execution of the trust to a third party or in the form of a cheque or draft which is without delay endorsed over in the execution of the trust to a party and is not passed by the legal practitioner through a bank account.