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SOLICITORS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 37



37.(1) Where the name of a solicitor is removed from or struck off the roll or
a solicitor is suspended from practice, that solicitor shall within three
weeks from the material date satisfy the Council that he has made suitable
arrangements for making available to his clients or to some other solicitor or
solicitors instructed by his clients or with the approval of the Council
instructed by himself

(a)all deeds, wills, documents constituting or evidencing title to any
property, papers, books of account, records, vouchers and other documents in
his or his firm's possession or control, or relating to any trust of which he
is the sole trustee or co-trustee only with one or more of his partners,
clerks, apprentices or servants; and

(b)all sums of money due from him or his firm to, or held by him or his firm
on behalf of, his clients or subject to any such trust as aforesaid,

(2) In this Article, the expression "the material date" means whichever is the
latest of the following dates, that is to say

(a)the date when the order of the Disciplinary Committee, or of the [High
Court or the Court of Appeal] ..., by or in pursuance of which the solicitor's
name is removed from or struck off the roll, or the solicitor is suspended
from practice, is to take effect;

(b)the last date on which an appeal against that order may be lodged;

(c)the date on which any such appeal is dismissed or abandoned.



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