Legal Profession Act 1987 Legal Practitioners Transitional Admission Rules (1998-39) [GG No 9 of 23.1.1998, p 360] (NSW)

1998 No 39

New South Wales

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS TRANSITIONAL ADMISSION RULES

The following amendments were made by the Legal Practitioners Admission

Board at its meeting on 9 December 1997:

Rules 53 and S9
Rules 53 and 59 are amended to read:

53.      The Board’s examinations are:

(a)

in the case of a student-at-law who has passed or been credited (aa) the following subjects:

Preliminary
Contracts
Torts
Criminal Law and Procedure
Real Property
Australian Constitutional Law
Equity
Commercial Transactions
Administrative Law
Law of Associations
Evidence
Taxation and Revenue Law
Succession
Conveyancing
Practice and Procedure
Jurisprudence

Legal Ethics

(ab) two of the following subjects:

Insolvency
Conflict of Laws
Family Law
Local Government Law

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Industrial Law
Intellectual Property Law
Public International Law

Trade Practices Law

(b) in any other case:

(ba) the following subjects:

Legal Institutions
Contracts
Torts
Criminal Law and Procedure
Real Property
Australian Constitutional Law
Equity
Commercial Transactions
Administrative Law
Law of Associations
Evidence
Taxation and Revenue Law
Succession
Conveyancing
Practice and Procedure
Jurisprudence

Legal Ethics

(bb) three of the following subjects:

Insolvency

Conflict of Laws

Family Law

Local Government Law
Industrial Law
Intellectual Property Law
Public International Law
Trade Practices Law

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59.        (1)

A student-at-law who has not passed the examinations in or been credited with or exempted from at least 12 subjects must sit for the examination in other subjects in the order in which they appear in rule 53 or in any variation thereof under rule 55.
(2)	A student-at-law who has passed the examinations in or been credited with or exempted from at least 12 subjects may sit for the examinations in the remaining subjects in any order.
(3)	A student-at-law must not, at any one sitting, sit for examination in more than two subjects until that student-at-law has passed eight compulsory subjects after which that student-at-law may not at any one sitting, sit for more than three subjects.
(4)	The Legal Qualifications Committee may, in circumstances conditions as it thinks fit, relax the provisions of this rule. which it regards as sufficiently special, and upon such
(5)	A student-at-law who completes the Board’s examinations except for Jurisprudence or Jurisprudence and Legal Ethics at the March or September 1998 examinations may substitute at the March or September 1998 examinations another subject for Jurisprudence.