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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 20
Conditional admission of foreign lawyers
20 Conditional admission of foreign lawyers
(1) The designated local regulatory authority may recommend in a compliance
certificate in respect of a foreign lawyer that the foreign lawyer be admitted
subject to conditions of one or more of the following kinds-- (a) a condition
limiting the period of the foreign lawyer's admission;
(b) a condition
requiring the foreign lawyer to undertake particular academic or practical
legal training or both;
(c) a condition requiring the foreign lawyer to
engage in supervised legal practice;
(d) a condition limiting the area of law
in which the foreign lawyer may engage in legal practice;
(e) a condition
otherwise restricting the foreign lawyer's practising entitlements.
(2) The
admission of a foreign lawyer is subject to the conditions (if any)
recommended by the designated local regulatory authority in the compliance
certificate.
(3) The Supreme Court may, after the admission of a foreign
lawyer, vary or revoke a condition to which the foreign lawyer's admission by
the Court is subject. The designated local regulatory authority may make
recommendations about the variation or revocation of a condition, and the
Court must consider any recommendations made by the designated local
regulatory authority in deciding on the variation or revocation of the
condition.
(4) Without limiting the grounds on which a person's name may be
removed from the Supreme Court roll, the Supreme Court may order the removal
of a person's name from the Supreme Court roll for a contravention of a
condition.
(5) Without limiting subsection (4), a contravention of a
condition is capable of constituting unsatisfactory professional conduct or
professional misconduct. Note: Section 48(1) provides that it is a statutory
condition of an Australian practising certificate granted in this jurisdiction
that the holder must not contravene a condition that was imposed on the
admission of the person to the Australian legal profession and that is still
in force.
(6) Nothing in this section is intended to interfere with the
inherent jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to refuse admission.
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