Legal Practitioners Admission Rules 1994 (NSW)

2005 No 563

New South Wales

Legal Practitioners Admission Rules

1994

under the

Legal Profession Act 1987

BY decision of the Legal Practitioners Admission Board, rule 43 is amended to read as follows:

43

(1)

A law school which proposes to offer an accredited law degree with effect from 1 January in any year may apply to the Board by 30 June in the preceding year for accreditation of the degree.

(2)

With its application, the applicant law school shall submit details of the subjects proposed to be taught and the proposed requirements for entitlement to the law degree.

(3)

The Board shall refer all material supplied under subrules (1) and (2) to the Legal Qualifications Committee, which shall refer the material to the Accreditation Sub-Committee.

(4)

The Accreditation Sub-Committee shall, after considering the material supplied under subrule (3), recommend to the Legal Qualifications Committee:

(a)	that the degree be recognised as requiring the completion of a tertiary academic course in Australia which includes the equivalent of at least three years full-time study of law, being a course of study which requires a satisfactory level of understanding and competence in the areas of knowledge referred to in the Fifth Schedule except for the trust accounting component of Professional Conduct,
(b)	that the degree be so recognised only in respect of a holder of the degree who has taken one or more designated elective subjects within the degree, or
(c)	that the degree not be so recognised.

(5)

The Legal Qualifications Committee shall, after considering the recommendation of the Accreditation Sub-Committee under subrule (4), make its own recommendation to the Board.

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Legal Practitioners Admission Rules 1994 Explanatory note

(6)

The Board shall, after considering the recommendation of the Legal
Qualifications Committee under subrule (5):

(a)	accredit the degree,
(b)	accredit the degree only in respect of a holder of the degree who has taken one or more designated elective subjects within the degree, or
(c)	refuse to accredit the degree,

in each case with effect from 1 January in the succeeding year, and
notify the law school accordingly.

BY AUTHORITY