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SCHEDULE 1 Admission Fees SCHEDULE 2 Annual Fee SCHEDULE 3 PRACTISING CERTIFICATE SCHEDULE 4 Operational Licence Fees SCHEDULE 5 OPERATIONAL LICENCE ENDNOTES Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) (2022 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_1\", \"num\": \"1.\", \"text\": \"Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_2\", \"num\": \"2.\", \"text\": \"Definitions 2. In this Act \u2014 \u201canti-money laundering and counter-terrorism legislation\u201d means any one of the following \u2014 (a)  the Proceeds of Crime Act (2020 Revision); (b)  the Terrorism Act (2018 Revision); (c)  the Proliferation Financing (Prohibition) Act (2017 Revision); (d)  any regulations made under the Acts specified in paragraphs (a) to (c); and (e)  any other legislation prescribed by regulations; \u201ccourt\u201d means the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and any court of Summary Jurisdiction; \u201cCourt of Appeal\u201d means the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands; \u201cClerk of Court\u201d means the officer appointed under section 7 of the Grand Court Act (2015 Revision) to be the Clerk of Court; \u201cfirm\u201d has the meaning assigned to it by section 5 of the Partnership Act (2013 Revision); and Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) \u201cjudge\u201d means a judge of the Grand Court appointed as such under section 95 of Schedule 2 to the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [U.K.S.I. 2009\/1379] or a person acting as such by virtue of section 97 of the said Schedule.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_3\", \"num\": \"3.\", \"text\": \"Admission of barristers, solicitors and others to practise as attorneys-at-law 3. (1) Subject to this Act, a judge may admit to practise as an attorney-at-law in the Islands any person who \u2014 (a) (i) is entitled to practise at the Bar of England and Wales or the Bar of Northern Ireland; and (ii) having received a certificate of call from either of those Bars, has either \u2014 (A) served twelve months pupillage in England, Wales or Northern Ireland; or (B) served the term of articles in the Islands required by Schedule 3 of the Legal Practitioners (Students) Regulations (2018 Revision); (iii) is a member of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England, Scotland or Northern Ireland; (iv) is an attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Jamaica; or (v) is a Writer to the Signet of Scotland or a solicitor admitted to practise in Scotland; or (b) satisfies a judge that that person is entitled to practise in any court of any of the Commonwealth and possesses a qualification comparable as to standard law, practice and procedure with those specified in paragraph (a); or (c) is qualified to practise as an attorney-at-law under regulations made under section 20. (2) A person who is qualified under subsection (1) may apply for admission to practise as an attorney-at-law and such application shall be made in writing addressed to a judge and be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court together with \u2014 (a) the certificate of the applicant\u2019s call to the Bar or, as the case may be, of the applicant\u2019s admission to the Faculty of Advocates or of the applicant\u2019s admission as solicitor, Writer to the Signet or Law Agent aforesaid, or the corresponding certificate relating to any qualification referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (1); and (b) an affidavit signed by the person in the presence of the Clerk of Court, who shall subscribe their name as a witness thereto, verifying that the certificate Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) is a true certificate and that the applicant is the person named therein and that the applicant is qualified as prescribed by subsection (1) (hereinafter referred to as \u201cthe prescribed qualification\u201d): Provided that a judge may exempt any such person from producing the said certificate and from verifying the same if the judge is otherwise satisfied that the applicant possesses the prescribed qualification (3) A judge may, for due cause, refuse to admit any applicant to practise as an attorney-at-law notwithstanding that the applicant may possess the prescribed qualification unless such person is being admitted to practise as an attorney-atlaw under paragraph (c) of section 3(1).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_4\", \"num\": \"4.\", \"text\": \"Limited admission as attorney-at-law 4. (1) A judge shall have power to admit to practise as an attorney-at-law, for the purpose of any specified suit or matter in regard to which the person so admitted has been instructed \u2014 (a) by an attorney-at-law in the Islands; or (b) where the Clerk of Court has certified that it is not possible to assign the services of an attorney-at-law to a person to whom a legal aid certificate has been granted under section 17 of the Legal Aid Act, 2015 [Law 17 of 2015], by such person, any person who possesses the prescribed qualification, if such person has come or intends to come to the Islands for the purpose of appearing, acting or advising in that suit or matter, and an application for such admission is made in such manner as the judge may think fit. (2) A person admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law under subsection (1) shall be entitled to practise for the purpose of the suit or matter concerned but not otherwise. (3) The Clerk of Court shall not issue a certificate under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) unless the Clerk of Court is satisfied that every reasonable effort has been made to obtain the services of an attorney-at-law in the Islands for the person to whom the legal aid certificate has been granted, and that there is no attorney-at-law in the Islands who is willing and able to advise or represent that person under the Legal Aid Act, 2015 [Law 17 of 2015].\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_5\", \"num\": \"5.\", \"text\": \"Enrolment of attorneys-at-law 5. (1) The Clerk of Court shall, upon application from any person admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law under section 3, enter the applicant\u2019s name in a book to be kept for the purpose by the Clerk and to be called the Court Roll and, upon the applicant\u2019s name being so enrolled, such person shall be entitled to a certificate of enrolment under the seal of the court. Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) (2) Any person whose name is so enrolled shall, subject to section 12, be entitled to practise as an attorney-at-law in every court in the Islands. (3) Any person practising as an attorney-at-law and whose name is so enrolled shall be deemed to be an officer of the Grand Court. (4) Subject to section 4, no person whose name is not so enrolled shall be entitled to practise in any court in the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_6\", \"num\": \"6.\", \"text\": \"Right to sue for fees and costs 6. Every attorney-at-law who has been admitted to practise and enrolled shall be entitled to sue for and recover their fees and costs in respect of services rendered as an attorney-at-law and shall be subject to all the liabilities which by law attach to an attorney-at-law.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_7\", \"num\": \"7.\", \"text\": \"Suspension and striking off Roll 7. (1) A judge shall have power, for reasonable cause shown, to suspend any attorneyat-law from practising as such during any specified period or to order the attorney-at-law\u2019s name to be struck off the Court Roll. (2) Before a judge takes such action as is laid down in subsection (1) hereof, the judge shall communicate or cause to be communicated in writing to the attorney-at-law concerned the nature of the complaint against that attorney-atlaw and such attorney-at-law shall be entitled to call witnesses and to be heard. (3) A judge may, if the judge thinks fit, at any time, order the Clerk of Court to replace on the Court Roll the name of an attorney-at-law whose name had been struck off the Roll.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_8\", \"num\": \"8.\", \"text\": \"Right of appeal to Court of Appeal 8. Any attorney-at-law aggrieved by a decision or order of a judge made under section 7(1) may appeal therefrom to the Court of Appeal in the manner and within the time prescribed by law or by the rules made, from time to time, by that Court relating to appeals in civil matters.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_9\", \"num\": \"9.\", \"text\": \"Persons guilty of contempt of court 9. A person who, not being themselves the plaintiff or defendant or other party thereto, in their own name or in the name of any other person acts as an attorney-at-law in any civil or criminal proceeding when not entitled to practise as such may be adjudged guilty of a contempt of the court in which that proceeding in relation to which that person so acts is brought, and may be punished accordingly. Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_10\", \"num\": \"10.\", \"text\": \"Unqualified persons not to prepare certain documents, etc. 10. (1) Subject to section 4, a person who, not being admitted to practise and enrolled as an attorney-at-law, or otherwise lawfully authorised, shall, either directly or indirectly, for, or in expectation of, any fee, gain or reward, draw or prepare any instrument relating to movable or immovable property or any legal proceeding, or shall receive any fee, gain or reward for drawing or preparing any such instrument or proceeding, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars. (2) Subsection (1) shall not extend to \u2014 (a) any public officer drawing or preparing instruments in the course of that public officer\u2019s duty; or (b) any person employed merely to engross or copy any instrument or proceeding. (3) In this section, \u201cinstrument\u201d does not include \u2014 (a) an agreement under hand only; (b) a letter or power of attorney; or (c) a transfer of stock containing no trust or limitation thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_11\", \"num\": \"11.\", \"text\": \"Admission fees 11. Any person admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law shall pay the admission fee specified in Schedule 1 in relation to such a person.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_12\", \"num\": \"12.\", \"text\": \"Annual fees 12. (1) Every person practising as an attorney-at-law, otherwise than by virtue of section 4, shall pay to the Clerk of Court the annual practising fee specified in Schedule 2. (2) The Clerk of Court shall issue to each attorney-at-law, on payment by the attorney-at-law of the annual practising fee prescribed by subsection (1), and also, if the attorney-at-law does not possess Caymanian status in accordance with Part III of the repealed Immigration Law (2015 Revision), or any earlier law providing for the same or similar rights, and includes a person who acquired that status under Part 5 of the Immigration (Transition) Act (2022 Revision), on the production by the attorney-at-law of a current and valid work permit issued under Part V of the repealed Immigration Law (2015 Revision), or Part 7 of the Immigration (Transition) Act (2022 Revision),  and an affidavit that the attorney-at-law intends to reside within the Islands for the entire period in respect of which the work permit has been granted, an annual practising certificate in the form prescribed in Schedule 3. Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) (3) A person who, not being a person practising by virtue of section 4, practises or attempts to practise as an attorney-at-law without being in possession of a current annual practising certificate issued under subsection (2), is liable to suspension under section 7(1).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_13\", \"num\": \"13.\", \"text\": \"Operational licence fee 13. (1) Every firm engaged in the practice of law which employs six or more attorneysat-law (including the partners of the firm) and every recognised body regulated under the Legal Practitioners (Incorporated Practice) Regulations (2006 Revision) which employs six or more attorneys-at-law shall pay to the Clerk of Court the annual operational licence fee specified in Schedule 4. (2) The Clerk of Court shall issue to each firm and recognised body to which this section applies, on payment of the annual operational licence fee prescribed by subsection (1), an annual operational licence in the form prescribed in Schedule 5. (3) Where a firm to which this section applies engages or attempts to engage in the practice of law, without being in possession of a current operational licence issued under subsection (2), the partners thereof are liable to suspension under section 7 (1). (4) Where a recognised body to which this section applies carries on business or attempts to carry on business as a recognised body without being in possession of a current operational licence issued under subsection (2), that recognised body is liable to suspension and revocation of recognition as specified under regulation 11 of the Legal Practitioners (Incorporated Practice) Regulations (2006 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_14\", \"num\": \"14.\", \"text\": \"Non-practising attorneys-at-law to be struck off Roll 14. The Clerk of Court shall strike off the Court Roll the name of any attorney-at-law, other than a person who possesses Caymanian status, who has not been, at any time during the twenty-four months immediately preceding the striking off, in possession of an annual practising certificate issued under section 12.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_15\", \"num\": \"15.\", \"text\": \"Savings 15. Nothing in this Act shall \u2014 (a) prejudice or affect the rights, including the right in connection with the duties of that person\u2019s office to act as an advocate, or privileges of the Attorney General or of any person holding public office in the Attorney General\u2019s chambers or of a person instructed by or on behalf of the Attorney General to appear for the Attorney General in any cause or matter and who possesses the prescribed qualification; (b) prejudice or affect the rights, including the right in connection with the duties of that person\u2019s office to act as an advocate, or privileges of the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) Director of Public Prosecutions or of any person holding public office in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions or of a person instructed by or on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions to appear for the Director of Public Prosecutions in any cause or matter and who possesses the prescribed qualification; or (c) affect any enactment empowering any person, whether or not an attorneyat-law, to conduct or otherwise act in relation to any legal proceeding.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_16\", \"num\": \"16.\", \"text\": \"Articled clerks 16. (1) An attorney-at-law who has been in continuous practice as a legal practitioner in any court in the Commonwealth for a period of at least five years (at least two of which have been in the Islands) may take any person into their service as an articled clerk. (2) An attorney-at-law shall not take into their service as an articled clerk any person who does not possess the minimum qualifications prescribed under section 20 for admission to service under articles. (3) An attorney-at-law shall not, without the approval of the Attorney General, have in their service more than two articled clerks at the same time: Provided that the Attorney General and, with the special leave of the Attorney General, the Clerk of Court and the Director of Public Prosecutions may have, in their respective service, up to four articled clerks at the same time. (4) A person shall not take or retain in their service any other person as an articled clerk after such first mentioned person has ceased to practise as an attorney-atlaw. (5) If any person takes or has in their service any articled clerk in contravention of subsections (1) to (4), the Attorney General may, of their own motion, discharge the articles of that clerk upon such terms including terms as to the return of any premium, as the Attorney General thinks fit. (6) Any other provision of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the Attorney General may, where in the Attorney General\u2019s opinion any person in the legal or judicial departments of the public service is performing duties which are mainly legal in nature, certify that the period spent in performing such duties shall, for the purposes of this Act, be equivalent in all respects to a similar period spent in the service of an attorney-at-law under articles and such certificate shall take effect according to its tenor.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_17\", \"num\": \"17.\", \"text\": \"Discharge of articles in certain circumstances 17. The Attorney General may, of their own motion, discharge the articles of an articled clerk on such terms as the Attorney General thinks fit, including terms as to the return of any premium if \u2014 Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) (a) the attorney-at-law to whom the articled clerk is articled is declared bankrupt or their name is struck off the Court Roll; (b) the Attorney General is satisfied after investigation that the articled clerk is morally unfit to become an attorney-at-law; or (c) upon the application of either the attorney-at-law or the articled clerk the Attorney General is satisfied that the articles ought to be discharged.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_18\", \"num\": \"18.\", \"text\": \"Transfer of articles, etc. 18. The Attorney General may, upon the application of any attorney-at-law and of any articled clerk, approve, in any case in which the Attorney General considers it proper so to do and subject to any conditions the Attorney General may think fit to impose, the transfer of the articled clerk to the service under articles of such other attorneyat-law as is willing to take the articled clerk, and, upon any such approval being given, the articled clerk shall be, for all purposes, the articled clerk of such other attorneyat-law and the written articles of clerkship under which the articled clerk was serving immediately before such approval shall, subject to any modifications made therein by the Attorney General, continue to have effect as though such other attorney-at-law had originally been a party thereto.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_19\", \"num\": \"19.\", \"text\": \"Legal Advisory Council 19. There is established a Legal Advisory Council comprising \u2014 (a) the Chief Justice; (b) the Attorney General or a legal practitioner in the public service nominated by the Attorney General; and (c) two attorneys-at-law in private practice who have ten or more years call to the Bar and who are nominated by the head of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association; or (d) as an alternative to paragraph (c), the head of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association, and one attorney-at-law in private practice who has ten or more years call to the Bar and who is nominated by the head of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association; and any two of those members of the Council shall form a quorum.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_20\", \"num\": \"20.\", \"text\": \"Regulations relating to legal education and qualification to practise law 20. (1) The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make arrangements for the provision of \u2014 (a) a system of legal education and practical training leading to local qualification for enrolment as an attorney-at-law; and (b) a system of law reporting. Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) (2) The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make regulations relating to matters connected with the functions under subsection (1) and, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations may prescribe \u2014 (a) local qualifications for enrolment as an attorney-at-law which qualifications may, among other things, require either the successful completion of a prescribed period of service under articles or the attainment of prescribed academic qualifications or both; (b) qualifications required for admission to legal education in the Islands; (c) the examinations to be taken and fees to be paid by candidates for admission and enrolment for legal education and examination and different examinations may be prescribed in respect of persons who possess different qualifications or have followed or are following different courses of study; (d) in respect of any examinations the papers which are to be set within the Islands, the syllabuses to be followed and, so far as may be practicable, in conjunction, if necessary, with any other educational authority, the courses of lectures to be given by suitably qualified lecturers in any subject included in any such examination; (e) arrangements for the holding of such examinations (including the times and places thereof), the setting, correcting and marking of papers and, generally, for the conduct of the examinations by suitably qualified persons; (f) the terms (including remuneration and conditions of service) on which articled clerks may be taken and retained by attorneys-at-law and the conduct, duties and responsibilities towards each other of the parties to articles, and any such regulations may make different provision in respect of different categories of persons; (g) the minimum qualifications for admission to service under articles; and (h) such further and other provision as may appear expedient for the governance of service under articles, the tuition of students and their examination, including provision for the practical training and the examination in the Islands of students or other persons.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_21\", \"num\": \"21.\", \"text\": \"Regulations relating to fees and costs in non-contentious matters, etc. 21. The Cabinet may make regulations for the better carrying out of this Act and, without derogation from the generality of the foregoing, in particular for \u2014 (a) revoking or amending Schedule 1, 2 or 3; (b) providing rules or procedure for the Legal Advisory Council; Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) (c) regulating fees and costs which attorneys-at-law are permitted to charge for their services in respect of business connected with sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, settlements, companies, trusts and other matters, and in respect of other business, not being business in any action, or transacted in any court, or the Chambers of a judge; (d) prescribing the forms of bills of costs, retainers and other agreements for the remuneration of attorneys-at-law; and (e) prescribing the penalties which may be imposed for any breach of any regulations made hereunder.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_22\", \"num\": \"22.\", \"text\": \"Regulations to permit attorneys to form incorporated practices 22. The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make regulations \u2014 (a) making provision as to the management and control by attorneys-at-law of bodies corporate carrying on businesses consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as attorneys-at-law; (b) prescribing the circumstances in which such bodies may be recognised by the Attorney General as being suitable bodies to undertake the provision of such services; (c) prescribing the conditions which (subject to any exceptions provided by the regulations) must, at all times, be satisfied by bodies corporate so recognised if they are to remain so recognised; (d) regulating the conduct of the affairs of recognised bodies and the names that such bodies may use; (e) for the suspension or revocation of the recognition of any recognised body granted under this section; and (f) to provide for any enactment or instrument passed or made before the 25th November, 1996 and having effect in relation to attorneys to have effect in relation to recognised bodies with such additions, omissions or other modifications as appear to the Cabinet to be necessary or expedient. (2) Section 10 shall not apply to a recognised body. (3) Section 10 shall not apply to any act done by an officer or employee of a recognised body if \u2014 (a) it was done by the officer or employee at the direction and under the supervision of another person who was, at the time, an officer or employee of the recognised body; and (b) it could have been done by that other person for, or in expectation of, any fee, gain or reward without committing an offence under section 10. (4) In this section \u2014 Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) \u201crecognised body\u201d means a body corporate for the time being recognised under this section. 22A. Regulation by the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association 22A. The objects of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association shall include the regulation of attorneys-at-law to ensure their compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism legislation. 22B. Regulations relating to continuing legal education 22B. The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council and the Council of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association, may make regulations to provide for continuing legal education and practical training for attorneys-at law, including \u2014 (a) continuing legal education and training in anti-money laundering and counterterrorism legislation; and (b)  giving the Council of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association the power to direct, in specified circumstances, any attorney or group of attorneys to undertake continuing legal education and training in antimoney laundering and counterterrorism legislation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_23\", \"num\": \"23.\", \"text\": \"Penalty for pretending to be a recognised body 23. (1) A body corporate shall not describe itself as a body corporate for the time being recognised under section 22 unless it is so recognised. (2) A body corporate which contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars. (3) Where an offence under subsection (1), which has been committed by a body corporate, is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, commits an offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_24\", \"num\": \"24.\", \"text\": \"Validation 24. If \u2014 (a) a person holding public office in the Attorney General\u2019s chambers has, at any time between 1st May, 2011 and the date of commencement of the Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2011 [Law 18 of 2011], purported to exercise, on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions, any power, function or discretion of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and (b) the exercise of that power, function or discretion would have been valid if section 2 of that Act had been in force at the time when the power, function or discretion was exercised, Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) the exercise of that power, function or discretion shall be deemed to have been valid. Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 (section 11) Admission Fees 1. General Admission           $2,000 2. Limited Admission           $2,000 SCHEDULE 2 Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) SCHEDULE 2 (section 12(1)) Annual Fee Two thousand dollars payable on or before the 2nd January in each year. Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE 3 (section 12(2)) GRAND COURT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS (2022 Revision) PRACTISING CERTIFICATE It is hereby certified that an attorney-at-law of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, having complied with section 12(1) of the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) is entitled to practise generally in the Islands as an attorney-at-law until the thirty-first day of December, 20      , upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the aforesaid Act. Dated this                   day of                        , 20  . __________________________ CLERK OF COURT SCHEDULE 4 Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) SCHEDULE 4 (section 13(1)) Operational Licence Fees Firm \/ recognised body \u2014 A firm or recognised body employing  1 - 5 attorneys-at-law Exempt A firm or recognised body employing  6 - 10 attorneys-at-law $20,000 A firm or recognised body employing  11 - 15 attorneys-at-law $40,000 A firm or recognised body employing  16- 20 attorneys-at-law $60,000 A firm or recognised body employing  21 - 25 attorneys-at-law $200,000 A firm or recognised body employing  26 - 30 attorneys-at-law $250,000 A firm or recognised body employing 31-40 attorneys-at-law $300,000 A firm or recognised body employing 41-50 attorneys-at-law $350,000 A firm or recognised body employing 51 or more attorneys-at-law $400,000 Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) SCHEDULE 5 SCHEDULE 5 (section 13(2)) GRAND COURT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS (2022 Revision) OPERATIONAL LICENCE The firm \/ recognised body (name of firm\/ recognised body) having complied with section 13 of the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) is entitled to carry on business in the Islands as a firm\/ recognised body until the thirty-first day of December, 20   , upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the aforesaid Act. Dated this               day of                         , 20    .     . __________________________ CLERK OF COURT Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 11th day of January, 2022. Kim Bullings Clerk of the Cabinet Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) ENDNOTES ENDNOTES Table of Legislation history: SL # Law\/Act # Legislation Commencement Gazette 56\/2020 Citation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020 3-Dec-2020 LG89\/2020\/s1 9\/2019 Legal Associations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law, 2018 (Commencement) Order, 2019 19-Feb-2019 LG2\/2019\/s13 29\/2018 Legal Associations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law, 21-Feb-2019 GE97\/2018\/s4 Legal Practitioners Law (2015 Revision) 17-Jul-2015 GE53\/2015\/s16 19\/2012 Director of Public Prosecutions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law, 2012 17-Sep-2012 GE90\/2012\/s17 Legal Practitioners Law (2012 Revision) 8-Oct-2021 G21\/2012\/S8 18\/2011 Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2011 5-Aug-2011 GE63\/2011\/s1 Legal Practitioners Law (2010 Revision) 8-Nov-2010 G23\/2010\/s7 29\/2009 Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2009 23-Nov-2009 G24\/2009\/s6 Legal Practitioners Law (2007 Revision) 23-Jul-2007 G15\/2007\/s8 22\/2006 Legal 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31st December, 2021\nc\n\nPUBLISHING DETAILS\nLaw 9 of 1969 consolidated with Laws 11 of 1972, 4 of 1980, 14 of 1982, 33 of 1983, 6 of\n1984, 6 of 1986, 13 of 1987, 4 of 1996, 20 of 1998 (part), 23 of 2001, 30 of 2002, 22 of\n2006, 29 of 2009, 18 of 2011, 19 of 2012 and 29 of 2018 and with the Legal Practitioners\n(Variation of Annual Practising Fee) Regulations, 2001 and the Legal Practitioners\n(Variation of Annual Practising Fee) Regulations, 2006 and as amended by Act 56 of 2020.\n\nRevised under the authority of the Law Revision Act (2020 Revision).\n\nOriginally enacted \u2014\nLaw 9 of 1969-13th August, 1969\nLaw 11 of 1972-11th May, 1972\nLaw 4 of 1980-17th March, 1980\nLaw 14 of 1982-9th December, 1982\nLaw 33 of 1983-24th November, 1983\nLaw 6 of 1984-9th May, 1984\nLaw 6 of 1986-21st May, 1986\nLaw 13 of 1987-29th April, 1987\nLaw 4 of 1996-8th July 1996.\nLaw 20 of 1998-15th February, 1999\nLaw 23 of 2001-26th September, 2001\nLaw 30 of 2002-19th December, 2002\nLaw 22 of 2006-31st July, 2006\nLaw 29 of 2009-21st October, 2009\nLaw 18 of 2011-3rd August, 2011\nLaw 19 of 2012-31st August, 2012\nLaw 29 of 2018-16th November, 2018\nAct 56 of 2020-7th December, 2020.\n\nOriginally made \u2014\n2001 Regulations-29th May, 2001\n2006 Regulations-30th May, 2006.\n\nConsolidated and revised this 31st December, 2020.\n\nNote (not forming part of this Act): This revision replaces the 2015 Revision which\nshould now be discarded.\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 3\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nLEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT\n(2022 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\nSection\nPage\n1.\nShort title ...................................................................................................................................5\n2.\nDefinitions ..................................................................................................................................5\n3.\nAdmission of barristers, solicitors and others to practise as attorneys-at-law .............................6\n4.\nLimited admission as attorney-at-law .........................................................................................7\n5.\nEnrolment of attorneys-at-law ....................................................................................................7\n6.\nRight to sue for fees and costs ...................................................................................................8\n7.\nSuspension and striking off Roll .................................................................................................8\n8.\nRight of appeal to Court of Appeal .............................................................................................8\n9.\nPersons guilty of contempt of court ............................................................................................8\n10.\nUnqualified persons not to prepare certain documents, etc. .......................................................9\n11.\nAdmission fees ..........................................................................................................................9\n12.\nAnnual fees ...............................................................................................................................9\n13.\nOperational licence fee ............................................................................................................ 10\n14.\nNon-practising attorneys-at-law to be struck off Roll ................................................................ 10\n15.\nSavings.................................................................................................................................... 10\n16.\nArticled clerks .......................................................................................................................... 11\n17.\nDischarge of articles in certain circumstances .......................................................................... 11\n18.\nTransfer of articles, etc. ........................................................................................................... 12\n19.\nLegal Advisory Council ............................................................................................................ 12\n20.\nRegulations relating to legal education and qualification to practise law ................................... 12\n21.\nRegulations relating to fees and costs in non-contentious matters, etc..................................... 13\n22.\nRegulations to permit attorneys to form incorporated practices ................................................ 14\n22A. Regulation by the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association .......................................... 15\n22B. Regulations relating to continuing legal education.................................................................... 15\n23.\nPenalty for pretending to be a recognised body ....................................................................... 15\n\nArrangement of Sections\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 4\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\n24.\nValidation................................................................................................................................. 15\nSCHEDULE 1\n17\nAdmission Fees\n17\nSCHEDULE 2\n18\nAnnual Fee\n18\nSCHEDULE 3\n19\nPRACTISING CERTIFICATE\n19\nSCHEDULE 4\n20\nOperational Licence Fees\n20\nSCHEDULE 5\n21\nOPERATIONAL LICENCE\n21\nENDNOTES\n23\nTable of Legislation history: ............................................................................................................... 23\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nSection 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 5\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nLEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT\n(2022 Revision)\n\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision).\n2.\nDefinitions\n2.\nIn this Act \u2014\n\u201canti-money laundering and counter-terrorism legislation\u201d means any one\nof the following \u2014\n(a)  the Proceeds of Crime Act (2020 Revision);\n(b)  the Terrorism Act (2018 Revision);\n(c)  the Proliferation Financing (Prohibition) Act (2017 Revision);\n(d)  any regulations made under the Acts specified in paragraphs (a) to (c); and\n(e)  any other legislation prescribed by regulations;\n\u201ccourt\u201d means the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and any court of\nSummary Jurisdiction;\n\u201cCourt of Appeal\u201d means the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands;\n\u201cClerk of Court\u201d means the officer appointed under section 7 of the Grand\nCourt Act (2015 Revision) to be the Clerk of Court;\n\u201cfirm\u201d has the meaning assigned to it by section 5 of the Partnership Act (2013\nRevision); and\n\nSection 3\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 6\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\n\u201cjudge\u201d means a judge of the Grand Court appointed as such under section 95\nof Schedule 2 to the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 [U.K.S.I.\n2009\/1379] or a person acting as such by virtue of section 97 of the said\nSchedule.\n3.\nAdmission of barristers, solicitors and others to practise as attorneys-at-law\n3.\n(1) Subject to this Act, a judge may admit to practise as an attorney-at-law in the\nIslands any person who \u2014\n(a)\n(i)\nis entitled to practise at the Bar of England and Wales or the Bar of\n\nNorthern Ireland; and\n(ii) having received a certificate of call from either of those Bars, has\neither \u2014\n(A) served twelve months pupillage in England, Wales or Northern\nIreland; or\n(B) served the term of articles in the Islands required by Schedule 3\nof the Legal Practitioners (Students) Regulations (2018\nRevision);\n(iii) is a member of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland or a solicitor of\nthe Supreme Court of Judicature of England, Scotland or Northern\nIreland;\n(iv) is an attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Jamaica; or\n(v) is a Writer to the Signet of Scotland or a solicitor admitted to practise\nin Scotland; or\n(b) satisfies a judge that that person is entitled to practise in any court of any\nof the Commonwealth and possesses a qualification comparable as to\nstandard law, practice and procedure with those specified in paragraph (a);\nor\n(c)\nis qualified to practise as an attorney-at-law under regulations made under\nsection 20.\n(2) A person who is qualified under subsection (1) may apply for admission to\npractise as an attorney-at-law and such application shall be made in writing\naddressed to a judge and be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court\ntogether with \u2014\n(a)\nthe certificate of the applicant\u2019s call to the Bar or, as the case may be, of\nthe applicant\u2019s admission to the Faculty of Advocates or of the applicant\u2019s\nadmission as solicitor, Writer to the Signet or Law Agent aforesaid, or the\ncorresponding certificate relating to any qualification referred to in\nparagraph (b) or (c) of subsection (1); and\n(b) an affidavit signed by the person in the presence of the Clerk of Court, who\nshall subscribe their name as a witness thereto, verifying that the certificate\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nSection 4\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 7\n\nis a true certificate and that the applicant is the person named therein and\nthat the applicant is qualified as prescribed by subsection (1) (hereinafter\nreferred to as \u201cthe prescribed qualification\u201d):\nProvided that a judge may exempt any such person from producing the said\ncertificate and from verifying the same if the judge is otherwise satisfied that\nthe applicant possesses the prescribed qualification\n(3) A judge may, for due cause, refuse to admit any applicant to practise as an\nattorney-at-law notwithstanding that the applicant may possess the prescribed\nqualification unless such person is being admitted to practise as an attorney-atlaw under paragraph (c) of section 3(1).\n4.\nLimited admission as attorney-at-law\n4.\n(1) A judge shall have power to admit to practise as an attorney-at-law, for the\npurpose of any specified suit or matter in regard to which the person so admitted\nhas been instructed \u2014\n(a)\nby an attorney-at-law in the Islands; or\n(b) where the Clerk of Court has certified that it is not possible to assign the\nservices of an attorney-at-law to a person to whom a legal aid certificate\nhas been granted under section 17 of the Legal Aid Act, 2015 [Law 17 of\n2015], by such person,\nany person who possesses the prescribed qualification, if such person has come\nor intends to come to the Islands for the purpose of appearing, acting or advising\nin that suit or matter, and an application for such admission is made in such\nmanner as the judge may think fit.\n(2) A person admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law under subsection (1) shall\nbe entitled to practise for the purpose of the suit or matter concerned but not\notherwise.\n(3) The Clerk of Court shall not issue a certificate under paragraph (b) of\nsubsection (1) unless the Clerk of Court is satisfied that every reasonable effort\nhas been made to obtain the services of an attorney-at-law in the Islands for the\nperson to whom the legal aid certificate has been granted, and that there is no\nattorney-at-law in the Islands who is willing and able to advise or represent that\nperson under the Legal Aid Act, 2015 [Law 17 of 2015].\n5.\nEnrolment of attorneys-at-law\n5.\n(1) The Clerk of Court shall, upon application from any person admitted to practise\nas an attorney-at-law under section 3, enter the applicant\u2019s name in a book to be\nkept for the purpose by the Clerk and to be called the Court Roll and, upon the\napplicant\u2019s name being so enrolled, such person shall be entitled to a certificate\nof enrolment under the seal of the court.\n\nSection 6\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 8\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\n(2) Any person whose name is so enrolled shall, subject to section 12, be entitled to\npractise as an attorney-at-law in every court in the Islands.\n(3) Any person practising as an attorney-at-law and whose name is so enrolled shall\nbe deemed to be an officer of the Grand Court.\n(4) Subject to section 4, no person whose name is not so enrolled shall be entitled\nto practise in any court in the Islands.\n6.\nRight to sue for fees and costs\n6.\nEvery attorney-at-law who has been admitted to practise and enrolled shall be entitled\nto sue for and recover their fees and costs in respect of services rendered as an\nattorney-at-law and shall be subject to all the liabilities which by law attach to an\nattorney-at-law.\n7.\nSuspension and striking off Roll\n7.\n(1) A judge shall have power, for reasonable cause shown, to suspend any attorneyat-law from practising as such during any specified period or to order the\nattorney-at-law\u2019s name to be struck off the Court Roll.\n(2) Before a judge takes such action as is laid down in subsection (1) hereof, the\njudge shall communicate or cause to be communicated in writing to the\nattorney-at-law concerned the nature of the complaint against that attorney-atlaw and such attorney-at-law shall be entitled to call witnesses and to be heard.\n(3) A judge may, if the judge thinks fit, at any time, order the Clerk of Court to\nreplace on the Court Roll the name of an attorney-at-law whose name had been\nstruck off the Roll.\n8.\nRight of appeal to Court of Appeal\n8.\nAny attorney-at-law aggrieved by a decision or order of a judge made under\nsection 7(1) may appeal therefrom to the Court of Appeal in the manner and within\nthe time prescribed by law or by the rules made, from time to time, by that Court\nrelating to appeals in civil matters.\n9.\nPersons guilty of contempt of court\n9.\nA person who, not being themselves the plaintiff or defendant or other party thereto,\nin their own name or in the name of any other person acts as an attorney-at-law in any\ncivil or criminal proceeding when not entitled to practise as such may be adjudged\nguilty of a contempt of the court in which that proceeding in relation to which that\nperson so acts is brought, and may be punished accordingly.\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nSection 10\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 9\n\n10.\nUnqualified persons not to prepare certain documents, etc.\n10. (1) Subject to section 4, a person who, not being admitted to practise and enrolled\nas an attorney-at-law, or otherwise lawfully authorised, shall, either directly or\nindirectly, for, or in expectation of, any fee, gain or reward, draw or prepare any\ninstrument relating to movable or immovable property or any legal proceeding,\nor shall receive any fee, gain or reward for drawing or preparing any such\ninstrument or proceeding, commits an offence and is liable on summary\nconviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.\n(2) Subsection (1) shall not extend to \u2014\n(a)\nany public officer drawing or preparing instruments in the course of that\npublic officer\u2019s duty; or\n(b) any person employed merely to engross or copy any instrument or\nproceeding.\n(3) In this section, \u201cinstrument\u201d does not include \u2014\n(a)\nan agreement under hand only;\n(b) a letter or power of attorney; or\n(c)\na transfer of stock containing no trust or limitation thereof.\n11.\nAdmission fees\n11. Any person admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law shall pay the admission fee\nspecified in Schedule 1 in relation to such a person.\n12.\nAnnual fees\n12. (1) Every person practising as an attorney-at-law, otherwise than by virtue of\nsection 4, shall pay to the Clerk of Court the annual practising fee specified in\nSchedule 2.\n(2) The Clerk of Court shall issue to each attorney-at-law, on payment by the\nattorney-at-law of the annual practising fee prescribed by subsection (1), and\nalso, if the attorney-at-law does not possess Caymanian status in accordance\n\nwith Part III of the repealed Immigration Law (2015 Revision), or any earlier law\nproviding for the same or similar rights, and includes a person who acquired that\nstatus under Part 5 of the Immigration (Transition) Act (2022 Revision), on the\nproduction by the attorney-at-law of a current and valid work permit issued\nunder Part V of the repealed Immigration Law (2015 Revision), or Part 7 of the\nImmigration (Transition) Act (2022 Revision),  and an affidavit that the\nattorney-at-law intends to reside within the Islands for the entire period in\nrespect of which the work permit has been granted, an annual practising\ncertificate in the form prescribed in Schedule 3.\n\nSection 13\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 10\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\n(3) A person who, not being a person practising by virtue of section 4, practises or\nattempts to practise as an attorney-at-law without being in possession of a\ncurrent annual practising certificate issued under subsection (2), is liable to\nsuspension under section 7(1).\n13.\nOperational licence fee\n13. (1) Every firm engaged in the practice of law which employs six or more attorneysat-law (including the partners of the firm) and every recognised body regulated\nunder the Legal Practitioners (Incorporated Practice) Regulations (2006\nRevision) which employs six or more attorneys-at-law shall pay to the Clerk of\nCourt the annual operational licence fee specified in Schedule 4.\n(2) The Clerk of Court shall issue to each firm and recognised body to which this\nsection applies, on payment of the annual operational licence fee prescribed by\nsubsection (1), an annual operational licence in the form prescribed in Schedule\n5.\n(3) Where a firm to which this section applies engages or attempts to engage in the\npractice of law, without being in possession of a current operational licence\nissued under subsection (2), the partners thereof are liable to suspension under\nsection 7 (1).\n(4) Where a recognised body to which this section applies carries on business or\nattempts to carry on business as a recognised body without being in possession\nof a current operational licence issued under subsection (2), that recognised\nbody is liable to suspension and revocation of recognition as specified under\nregulation 11 of the Legal Practitioners (Incorporated Practice) Regulations\n(2006 Revision).\n14.\nNon-practising attorneys-at-law to be struck off Roll\n14. The Clerk of Court shall strike off the Court Roll the name of any attorney-at-law,\nother than a person who possesses Caymanian status, who has not been, at any time\nduring the twenty-four months immediately preceding the striking off, in possession\nof an annual practising certificate issued under section 12.\n15.\nSavings\n15. Nothing in this Act shall \u2014\n(a)\nprejudice or affect the rights, including the right in connection with the\nduties of that person\u2019s office to act as an advocate, or privileges of the\nAttorney General or of any person holding public office in the Attorney\nGeneral\u2019s chambers or of a person instructed by or on behalf of the\nAttorney General to appear for the Attorney General in any cause or matter\nand who possesses the prescribed qualification;\n(b) prejudice or affect the rights, including the right in connection with the\nduties of that person\u2019s office to act as an advocate, or privileges of the\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nSection 16\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 11\n\nDirector of Public Prosecutions or of any person holding public office in\nthe Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions or of a person instructed\nby or on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions to appear for the\nDirector of Public Prosecutions in any cause or matter and who possesses\nthe prescribed qualification; or\n(c)\naffect any enactment empowering any person, whether or not an attorneyat-law, to conduct or otherwise act in relation to any legal proceeding.\n16.\nArticled clerks\n16. (1) An attorney-at-law who has been in continuous practice as a legal practitioner\nin any court in the Commonwealth for a period of at least five years (at least two\nof which have been in the Islands) may take any person into their service as an\narticled clerk.\n(2) An attorney-at-law shall not take into their service as an articled clerk any\nperson who does not possess the minimum qualifications prescribed under\nsection 20 for admission to service under articles.\n(3) An attorney-at-law shall not, without the approval of the Attorney General, have\nin their service more than two articled clerks at the same time:\nProvided that the Attorney General and, with the special leave of the Attorney\nGeneral, the Clerk of Court and the Director of Public Prosecutions may have,\nin their respective service, up to four articled clerks at the same time.\n(4) A person shall not take or retain in their service any other person as an articled\nclerk after such first mentioned person has ceased to practise as an attorney-atlaw.\n(5) If any person takes or has in their service any articled clerk in contravention of\nsubsections (1) to (4), the Attorney General may, of their own motion, discharge\nthe articles of that clerk upon such terms including terms as to the return of any\npremium, as the Attorney General thinks fit.\n(6) Any other provision of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the Attorney\nGeneral may, where in the Attorney General\u2019s opinion any person in the legal\nor judicial departments of the public service is performing duties which are\nmainly legal in nature, certify that the period spent in performing such duties\nshall, for the purposes of this Act, be equivalent in all respects to a similar period\nspent in the service of an attorney-at-law under articles and such certificate shall\ntake effect according to its tenor.\n17.\nDischarge of articles in certain circumstances\n17. The Attorney General may, of their own motion, discharge the articles of an articled\nclerk on such terms as the Attorney General thinks fit, including terms as to the return\nof any premium if \u2014\n\nSection 18\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 12\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\n(a)\nthe attorney-at-law to whom the articled clerk is articled is declared\nbankrupt or their name is struck off the Court Roll;\n(b) the Attorney General is satisfied after investigation that the articled clerk\nis morally unfit to become an attorney-at-law; or\n(c)\nupon the application of either the attorney-at-law or the articled clerk the\nAttorney General is satisfied that the articles ought to be discharged.\n18.\nTransfer of articles, etc.\n18. The Attorney General may, upon the application of any attorney-at-law and of any\narticled clerk, approve, in any case in which the Attorney General considers it proper\nso to do and subject to any conditions the Attorney General may think fit to impose,\nthe transfer of the articled clerk to the service under articles of such other attorneyat-law as is willing to take the articled clerk, and, upon any such approval being given,\nthe articled clerk shall be, for all purposes, the articled clerk of such other attorneyat-law and the written articles of clerkship under which the articled clerk was serving\nimmediately before such approval shall, subject to any modifications made therein by\nthe Attorney General, continue to have effect as though such other attorney-at-law\nhad originally been a party thereto.\n19.\nLegal Advisory Council\n19. There is established a Legal Advisory Council comprising \u2014\n(a)\nthe Chief Justice;\n(b) the Attorney General or a legal practitioner in the public service nominated\nby the Attorney General; and\n(c)\ntwo attorneys-at-law in private practice who have ten or more years call to\nthe Bar and who are nominated by the head of the Cayman Islands Legal\nPractitioners Association; or\n(d) as an alternative to paragraph (c), the head of the Cayman Islands Legal\nPractitioners Association, and one attorney-at-law in private practice who\nhas ten or more years call to the Bar and who is nominated by the head of\nthe Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association;\nand any two of those members of the Council shall form a quorum.\n20.\nRegulations relating to legal education and qualification to practise law\n20. (1) The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make\narrangements for the provision of \u2014\n(a)\na system of legal education and practical training leading to local\nqualification for enrolment as an attorney-at-law; and\n(b) a system of law reporting.\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nSection 21\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 13\n\n(2) The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make\nregulations relating to matters connected with the functions under subsection (1)\nand, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such\nregulations may prescribe \u2014\n(a)\nlocal qualifications for enrolment as an attorney-at-law which\nqualifications may, among other things, require either the successful\ncompletion of a prescribed period of service under articles or the\nattainment of prescribed academic qualifications or both;\n(b) qualifications required for admission to legal education in the Islands;\n(c)\nthe examinations to be taken and fees to be paid by candidates for\nadmission and enrolment for legal education and examination and different\nexaminations may be prescribed in respect of persons who possess\ndifferent qualifications or have followed or are following different courses\nof study;\n(d) in respect of any examinations the papers which are to be set within the\nIslands, the syllabuses to be followed and, so far as may be practicable, in\nconjunction, if necessary, with any other educational authority, the courses\nof lectures to be given by suitably qualified lecturers in any subject\nincluded in any such examination;\n(e)\narrangements for the holding of such examinations (including the times\nand places thereof), the setting, correcting and marking of papers and,\ngenerally, for the conduct of the examinations by suitably qualified\npersons;\n(f)\nthe terms (including remuneration and conditions of service) on which\narticled clerks may be taken and retained by attorneys-at-law and the\nconduct, duties and responsibilities towards each other of the parties to\narticles, and any such regulations may make different provision in respect\nof different categories of persons;\n(g) the minimum qualifications for admission to service under articles; and\n(h) such further and other provision as may appear expedient for the\ngovernance of service under articles, the tuition of students and their\nexamination, including provision for the practical training and the\nexamination in the Islands of students or other persons.\n21.\nRegulations relating to fees and costs in non-contentious matters, etc.\n21. The Cabinet may make regulations for the better carrying out of this Act and, without\nderogation from the generality of the foregoing, in particular for \u2014\n(a)\nrevoking or amending Schedule 1, 2 or 3;\n(b) providing rules or procedure for the Legal Advisory Council;\n\nSection 22\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 14\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\n(c)\nregulating fees and costs which attorneys-at-law are permitted to charge\nfor their services in respect of business connected with sales, purchases,\nleases, mortgages, settlements, companies, trusts and other matters, and in\nrespect of other business, not being business in any action, or transacted in\nany court, or the Chambers of a judge;\n(d) prescribing the forms of bills of costs, retainers and other agreements for\nthe remuneration of attorneys-at-law; and\n(e)\nprescribing the penalties which may be imposed for any breach of any\nregulations made hereunder.\n22.\nRegulations to permit attorneys to form incorporated practices\n22. The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council, may make\nregulations \u2014\n(a)\nmaking provision as to the management and control by attorneys-at-law of\nbodies corporate carrying on businesses consisting of the provision of\nprofessional services such as are provided by individuals practising as\nattorneys-at-law;\n(b) prescribing the circumstances in which such bodies may be recognised by\nthe Attorney General as being suitable bodies to undertake the provision\nof such services;\n(c)\nprescribing the conditions which (subject to any exceptions provided by\nthe regulations) must, at all times, be satisfied by bodies corporate so\nrecognised if they are to remain so recognised;\n(d) regulating the conduct of the affairs of recognised bodies and the names\nthat such bodies may use;\n(e)\nfor the suspension or revocation of the recognition of any recognised body\ngranted under this section; and\n(f)\nto provide for any enactment or instrument passed or made before the 25th\nNovember, 1996 and having effect in relation to attorneys to have effect\nin relation to recognised bodies with such additions, omissions or other\nmodifications as appear to the Cabinet to be necessary or expedient.\n(2) Section 10 shall not apply to a recognised body.\n(3) Section 10 shall not apply to any act done by an officer or employee of a\nrecognised body if \u2014\n(a)\nit was done by the officer or employee at the direction and under the\nsupervision of another person who was, at the time, an officer or employee\nof the recognised body; and\n(b) it could have been done by that other person for, or in expectation of, any\nfee, gain or reward without committing an offence under section 10.\n(4) In this section \u2014\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\nSection 22A\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 15\n\n\u201crecognised body\u201d means a body corporate for the time being recognised under\nthis section.\n22A. Regulation by the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association\n22A. The objects of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association shall include the\nregulation of attorneys-at-law to ensure their compliance with anti-money laundering\nand counter-terrorism legislation.\n22B. Regulations relating to continuing legal education\n22B. The Cabinet, after consultation with the Legal Advisory Council and the Council of\nthe Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association, may make regulations to provide\nfor continuing legal education and practical training for attorneys-at law, including \u2014\n(a)\ncontinuing legal education and training in anti-money laundering and\ncounterterrorism legislation; and\n(b)  giving the Council of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association\nthe power to direct, in specified circumstances, any attorney or group of\nattorneys to undertake continuing legal education and training in antimoney laundering and counterterrorism legislation.\n23.\nPenalty for pretending to be a recognised body\n23. (1) A body corporate shall not describe itself as a body corporate for the time being\nrecognised under section 22 unless it is so recognised.\n(2) A body corporate which contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is\nliable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.\n(3) Where an offence under subsection (1), which has been committed by a body\ncorporate, is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of,\nor to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager,\nsecretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person purporting\nto act in any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, commits\nan offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.\n24.\nValidation\n24. If \u2014\n(a)\na person holding public office in the Attorney General\u2019s chambers has, at\nany time between 1st May, 2011 and the date of commencement of the\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Act 2011 [Law 18 of 2011], purported\nto exercise, on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions, any power,\nfunction or discretion of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and\n(b) the exercise of that power, function or discretion would have been valid if\nsection 2 of that Act had been in force at the time when the power, function\nor discretion was exercised,\n\nSection 24\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 16\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\nthe exercise of that power, function or discretion shall be deemed to have been\nvalid.\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nSCHEDULE 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 17\n\n SCHEDULE 1\n(section 11)\nAdmission Fees\n1.\nGeneral Admission           $2,000\n2.\nLimited Admission           $2,000\n\nSCHEDULE 2\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 18\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\nSCHEDULE 2\n(section 12(1))\nAnnual Fee\n\nTwo thousand dollars payable on or before the 2nd January in each year.\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nSCHEDULE 3\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 19\n\nSCHEDULE 3\n(section 12(2))\nGRAND COURT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS\nLEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT\n(2022 Revision)\n\nPRACTISING CERTIFICATE\nIt is hereby certified that an attorney-at-law of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands,\nhaving complied with section 12(1) of the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) is\nentitled to practise generally in the Islands as an attorney-at-law until the thirty-first day of\nDecember, 20      , upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the aforesaid\nAct.\nDated this                   day of                        , 20  .\n__________________________\nCLERK OF COURT\n\nSCHEDULE 4\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nPage 20\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nc\n\nSCHEDULE 4\n(section 13(1))\nOperational Licence Fees\n\n   Firm \/ recognised body \u2014\n\nA firm or recognised body employing  1 - 5 attorneys-at-law\nExempt\n\nA firm or recognised body employing  6 - 10 attorneys-at-law\n$20,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing  11 - 15 attorneys-at-law\n$40,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing  16- 20 attorneys-at-law\n$60,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing  21 - 25 attorneys-at-law\n$200,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing  26 - 30 attorneys-at-law\n$250,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing 31-40 attorneys-at-law\n$300,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing 41-50 attorneys-at-law\n$350,000\n\nA firm or recognised body employing 51 or more attorneys-at-law\n$400,000\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nSCHEDULE 5\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 21\n\nSCHEDULE 5\n(section 13(2))\nGRAND COURT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS\nLEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT\n(2022 Revision)\nOPERATIONAL LICENCE\nThe firm \/ recognised body (name of firm\/ recognised body) having complied with section\n13 of the Legal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision) is entitled to carry on business in the\nIslands as a firm\/ recognised body until the thirty-first day of December, 20   , upon the\nterms and subject to the conditions set forth in the aforesaid Act.\nDated this               day of                         , 20    .     .\n__________________________\nCLERK OF COURT\n\nPublication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 11th\nday of January, 2022.\nKim Bullings\nClerk of the Cabinet\n\nLegal Practitioners Act (2022 Revision)\n\nENDNOTES\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2021\nPage 23\n\nENDNOTES\nTable of Legislation history:\nSL #\nLaw\/Act #\nLegislation\nCommencement\nGazette\n\n56\/2020\nCitation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020\n3-Dec-2020\nLG89\/2020\/s1\n9\/2019\n\nLegal Associations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law,\n2018 (Commencement) Order, 2019\n19-Feb-2019\nLG2\/2019\/s13\n\n29\/2018\nLegal Associations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Law,\n2018\n21-Feb-2019\nGE97\/2018\/s4\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (2015 Revision)\n17-Jul-2015\nGE53\/2015\/s16\n\n19\/2012\nDirector of Public Prosecutions (Miscellaneous\nAmendments) Law, 2012\n17-Sep-2012\nGE90\/2012\/s17\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (2012 Revision)\n8-Oct-2021\nG21\/2012\/S8\n\n18\/2011\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2011\n5-Aug-2011\nGE63\/2011\/s1\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (2010 Revision)\n8-Nov-2010\nG23\/2010\/s7\n\n29\/2009\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2009\n23-Nov-2009\nG24\/2009\/s6\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (2007 Revision)\n23-Jul-2007\nG15\/2007\/s8\n\n22\/2006\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2006\n2-Oct-2006\nG20\/2006\/s4\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (2003 Revision)\n30-Jun-2001\nG13\/2003\/s11\n\n30\/2002\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2002\n27-Dec-2002\nGE46\/2002\/s2\n\n23\/2001\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 2001\n12-Dec-2001\nGE30\/2001\/s2\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (1999 Revision)\n16-Aug-1999\nG17\/1999\/s9\n\n20\/1998\nFinance Law, 1998\n16-Nov-1998\nG7\/1999\/s10\n\n4\/1996\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1996\n25-Nov-96\nG24\/1996\/s6\n\nLegal Practitioners Law (1995 Revision)\n6-Mar-1995\nG5\/1995\/s1\n\n13\/1987\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1987\n22-Jun-1987\nG13\/1987\/s11\n\n6\/1986\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1986\n12-Jun-1986\nGE12Jun\/1986\/s3\n\n6\/1984\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1984\n23-Jul-1984\nG15\/1984\/s3\n\n33\/1983\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1983\n1-Jan-1984\nG1\/1984\/s6\n\n14\/1982\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1982\n1-Jan-1983\nG3\/1983\/s4\n\n4\/1980\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1980\n19-May-1980\nG10\/1980\/s4\n\n11\/1972\nLegal Practitioners (Amendment) Law, 1972\n10-Jul-1972 GN No. 131 of 1972\n\n9\/1969\nLegal Practitioners Law, 1969\n22-Sep-1969\nGN No. 150 of 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