1990 No. 676 (NSW)

1990 - No. 676

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - RULE

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 125 of 12 October 1990]

BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS ADMISSION RULES 1989

The following amendments to the rules were made by the Barristers Admission Board and the Solicitors Admission Board on 5 October, 1990.

1.       Rule 29 is amended

(i)	by deleting the word "who" from paragraph (b) and (c) to sub-rule 1.
(ii)	by adding in paragraph (b) of sub-rule 1 after “1986" the words "and before 1990".
(iii)	by adding new paragraph (f) to Subrule 1 as follows:

"have sat for at least 11 units in the NSW Higher School

Certificate in 1990 or subsequently and have attained at least the fiftieth percentile in such examination as a whole and who have been placed in the top 70% candidature in English".

2.      Amend Rule 105:

(i)	by inserting at the end of paragraph (a) the words "or the Australian National University Legal Workshop course."
(ii)	by inserting in paragraph (b) immediately after the words "Board that" when last appearing, the words "they have not been previously admitted as a legal practitioner in any place outside Australia or New Zealand and that".

3.     By adding after the words "Solicitors Admission Board" where last appearing in each of the forms Nos 1, 2, 3 and 14 and after

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the words "Barristers Admission Board" where last appearing on Form No. 10, the words "Law Courts Building, Queen's Square, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000".

4.    By adding to Form No. 2

(i)	The word "brief" before "resume" in paragraph 2; and
(ii)	The word "(month)" after the word "in" in paragraph 3.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of these amendments is to update certain rules in the Barristers and

Solicitors Admission Rules, 1989, because of changes in the Higher School

Certilicate marking system, to amend olhers for the sake ol consistency and to improve certain forms in thc rules.

M. SHEVLlN,

Acting Secretary to thc Barristers and

Solicitors Admission Boards.