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Client [fr. cliens, Lat., said to contain the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly compared by Niebuhr with the German word hoeriger, a dependent], a person who seeks advice of a lawyer or commits his cause to the management of one, either in prosecuting a claim or defending a suit in a Court of justice; and for meaning, the word (except in relation to non-contentious business) includes any person who as principal or on behalf of another person retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person who is or may be liable to pay a solicitor's costs (English) (Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 81). The relation between solicitor and client is a highly confidential one, and the power which his situation gives the former over the latter makes it impossible to be perfectly assured, in certain cases, whether in their transactions the client is a free agent, or under influence and imposition. A Court of Equity, therefore, ...
attorney-client privilege
attorney-client privilege the doctrine that ensures that communications between an attorney and his or her client remain confidential and that the attorney cannot be compelled to disclose them. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Accountant-client privilege
Accountant-client privilege, means protection afforded to a client from an accountant's unauthorising discloser of materials submitted to or prepared by the accountant, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1215....
Client account
Client account, is a current or deposit account with an authorised institution, in the name of the estate agent or his employer, containing the word 'client' in its title, Estate Agents Act, 1979, s. 14(2) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 17, p. 15.Includes (i) a guarantor or a person who proposes to give guarantee or security for borrower of a credit institution; or (ii) a person (a) who has obtained or seeks to obtain financial assistance from a credit constitution, by way of loans, advances, hire purchase, leasing facility, letter of credit, guarantee facility, venture capital assistance by way of credit cards or in any other form or manner; (b) who has raised or seeks to raise money by issue of security as defined in clause (h) of s. 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, or by issue of commercial paper depository receipts or any other instrument; (c) whose financial standing has been assessed or is proposed to be assessed by credit institution or any...
client security fund
client security fund see fund ...
Cliented
Supplied with clients...
Client (Lay)
Client (Lay), refers to the person on whose behalf the barrister is retained or in relation to an employed barrister, his employer, Code of Conduct for the Bar of England and Wales (4th Edn., 1989) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 458, p. 364....
Client (Professional)
Client (Professional), refers to the solicitor or other proper professional agent by whom a barrister in independent practice is retained: Code of Conduct for the Bar of England and Wales (4th Edn., 1989) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 458, p. 364....
Clients' money
Clients' money, means any contract or pre-contract deposit received by an estate agent in the course of estate agency work in respect of the acquisition of an interest in land, Estate Agents Act, 1979, s. 12(1) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 17, p. 15....
Solicitor
Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ or process, or commence, carry on, solicit, or defend any action, suit or other proceeding' in any Court whatever (see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932, s. 45). 'Solicitor of the Supreme Court' was the title given by the (English) Judicature Act, 1843, s. 87, to all attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, and continued by (English) Solicitors Act 1932, s. 81. Prior to that Act, 'attorneys' conducted business in the Common Law Courts, 'solicitors' business in the Court of Chancery and 'proctors' ecclesiastical and Admiralty business; but it was the general practice, although any person might be admitted to practise as an attorney or solicitor only, to be admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor also.Solicitors practise as advocates before magistrates at petty sessions and quarter sessions where there is no bar, in County Courts, at Arbitrations, at Judges' Chambers, Coroners...
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