Section 19 Legal Practitioners Act

Section 19 of Legal Practitioners Act 1975 is about Supplementary provisions as to remuneration. It is under ‘Remuneration of Practitioners‘ of the sections of the Act. It provides as follows:

1. Without prejudice to the provisions of section 24 of this Act, in sections 15, 16, 17, 18 and this section (in this section referred to as “the remuneration provisions”) the following expressions have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires, that is to say—

“bill of charges” means such a bill as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 16 of this Act;
“charges” means any charges (whether by way of fees, disbursements, expenses or otherwise) in respect of anything done by a legal practitioner in his capacity as a legal practitioner:

“client” means the person or any of the persons alleged to be liable to pay the charges of a legal practitioner;
“the court” means the High Court of the State in which the legal practitioner in question usually carries on his practice or usually resides or in which the client in question usually resides or has his principal place of business or, in the case of a legal practitioner authorised to practise by warrant, the High Court of the State in which the proceedings specified in the application for the warrant were begun;

“taxation” means taxation by the proper officer of the court, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.

2. For the purposes of the remuneration provisions, a bill of charges is delivered if it is served on or left for or sent to the client as mentioned in subsection (2) of section 16 of this Act and, in relation to a bill of charges, “deliver” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.

3. The remuneration provisions shall apply to a firm consisting of legal practitioners in partnership as they apply to a legal practitioner.

4. For the purposes of the remuneration provisions, a person shall be deemed to be a legal practitioner in relation to any charges if he was a legal practitioner when he performed the services to which the charges relate.