Rule 4 Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964

Rule 4 of the Legal Practitioners’ Accounts Rules 1964 is under Part II (Client accounts). It provides as follows:

There may be paid into a client account —

(a) trust money;

(b) such money belonging to the legal practitioner as may be necessary for the purpose of opening or maintaining the account.

(c) Money to replace any sum which may by mistake or accident have been drawn from the account in contravention of sub-rule (2) of Rules 8 of these Rules; and

(d) a cheque or draft received by the legal practitioner, which under Rule 5 of these Rules he is entitled to split but which he does not split.

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