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Client (Professional)

Client (Professional), refers to the solicitor or other proper professional agent by

Solicitor

c. 77), s. 9] A solicitor is liable to his client for negligence, and may be struck off the Roll for … costs, see s. 69. Communications made to him in his professional character by a client are privileged; but the privilege is

Secret

a barrister, is bound by law not to disclose his client's secrets, and the same rule does not appear to apply … the client, not of the solicitor. The clerk of a professional or business man is under an implied contract not to

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Improper legal advice and wrong legal advice

accept employment with such motive, or so long as his client has such understanding of his purpose. It is professionally improper … of wrong legal advice. While the former may amount to professional misconduct, the latter may not be so. It is against

Professional misconduct

Professional misconduct, may consist in betraying the confidence of a client, in attempting by any means to practise a fraud or

Brief

obligation between a barrister and either the professional or lay client, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), 4th Edn., Para 459,

commingling

commingling Act of fiduciary in mingling funds of his beneficiary, client, employer, or ward with his own funds. Such act is … result is subject to disciplinary action under the Rules of Professional Conduct. Source: FindLaw

Retainer

Retainer. (1) The contract between client and solicitor or between solicitor and counsel for professional services:

conflict of interest

conflict between competing duties (as in an attorney's representation of clients with adverse interests) see also ABA Model Rules of Professional

Countor

An advocate or professional pleader one who counted for his client that is orally pleaded his cause

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