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SOLICITORS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 39



39.(1) Where

(a)the Council have reasonable cause to believe and have passed a resolution
stating that they have reasonable cause to believe that

(i)a solicitor who has died, or his clerk, apprentice or servant, has been
guilty of dishonesty or undue delay in connection with his practice as a
solicitor or in connection with any trust of which the solicitor was a
trustee; or

(ii)the personal representatives of a deceased solicitor who immediately
before his death was practising as a solicitor in his own name, or as sole
solicitor under a firm name, have been guilty of dishonesty or undue delay in
administering the affairs of that solicitor's practice or in connection with
any trust of which that solicitor was a trustee; or

(b)a solicitor dies and immediately before his death the provisions of
Schedule 1 applied to him;

(2) Where no grant of representation has been issued in the estate of any
solicitor to whom paragraph (1)(a)(i) or (b) applies the High Court shall,
notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, have power to
grant letters of administration (with or without will annexed) to the Society
and, where such a grant is issued to them the Society may act accordingly as
administrator and shall have the same rights and be subject to the same
liabilities and be accountable in like manner as if the Society were the
personal representatives of the deceased.

(3) On a grant being made to the Society under paragraph (2) in respect of the
estate of a deceased solicitor a person shall not, without a grant being made
to him, be or become entitled to administer any estate of which that deceased
solicitor was an executor.



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