Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1988
1 Powers of Council of Law Society where inadequate professional services alleged.
2 Power of Council of Law Society to investigate complaints.
3 Functions of Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal.
4 Powers of Council of Law Society where excessive fees etc charged.
5 Interpretation.
6 Minor and consequential amendments, repeals and transitional provisions.
7 Citation, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Amendments to Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980
1The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 shall be amended in accordance...
2At the end of section 7 (keeping of roll of...
3In section 9 (removal of name from roll of solicitors...
4In section 10 (restoration of name to roll of solicitors...
5In section 15(2) (cases where notice of intention to apply...
6After subsection (5) of section 19 (further provisions relating to...
7In section 32(1)(b) (offence for unqualified person to draw or...
8In section 33(b) (unqualified persons not entitled to fees, etc),...
9In section 35(1)(a) (accounts rules), after the words “subsection (2)”...
10In section 36 (interest on client’s money)—
11In section 38(2)(b) (powers of Council where dishonesty alleged), for...
12In section 40(1) (powers of Council where accounts rules etc...
13In section 41(a) (appointment of judicial factor), the words “to...
14In section 51 (complaints to Tribunal)— (a) in subsection (2),...
15In section 52(2) (rules of Tribunal), after paragraph (a) there...
16In section 53 (powers of Tribunal in relation to complaints)—...
17After section 53C (inserted by section 3 of this Act)...
18In section 57(5) (fees for admission and enrolment of solicitors...
19In section 61 (protection of banks in transactions with solicitors),...
20In section 65(1) (interpretation)— (a) after the definition of “advocate”...
21In Schedule 1 (constitution and proceedings of the Law Society...
22In Schedule 2 (provisions regarding maintenance of roll of solicitors)—...
23In Schedule 4 (constitution, procedure and powers of Tribunal)—
24In paragraph 9 of Schedule 6 (saving for non-qualified person...
SCHEDULE 2 Repeals

Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1988

1988 c. 42

An Act to amend the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—