Part IILegal Services
Rights of audience and rights to conduct litigation
F131 Barristers and solicitors.
(1)
Every barrister shall be deemed to have been granted by the General Council of the Bar a right of audience before every court in relation to all proceedings (exercisable in accordance with the qualification regulations and rules of conduct of the General Council of the Bar approved for the purposes of section 27 in relation to the right).
(2)
Every solicitor shall be deemed to have been granted by the Law Society—
(a)
a right of audience before every court in relation to all proceedings (exercisable in accordance with the qualification regulations and rules of conduct of the Law Society approved for the purposes of section 27 in relation to the right); and
(b)
a right to conduct litigation in relation to every court and all proceedings (exercisable in accordance with the qualification regulations and rules of conduct of the Law Society approved for the purposes of section 28 in relation to the right).
(3)
A person shall not have a right of audience by virtue of subsection (1) if—
(a)
he has not been called to the Bar by an Inn of Court; or
(b)
he has been disbarred, or is temporarily suspended from practice, by order of an Inn of Court.