HL Deb 25 October 1990 vol 522 cc1674-5

244 Schedule 6, page 99, line 13, leave out 'and' and insert: "foreign lawyer" means a person who is not a solicitor or an advocate but who is a member, and entitled to practise as such, of a legal profession regulated within a jurisdiction outwith Scotland;"; (aa) after the definition of "judge" there shall be inserted— law centre" means a body

  1. (a) established for the purpose of providing legal services to the public generally as well as to individual members of the public; and
  2. (b) which does not distribute any profits made either to its members or otherwise, but reinvests any such profits for the purposes of the law centre;";
(ab) after the definition of "Lord President" there shall be inserted— multi-disciplinary practice" means a body corporate or a partnership—
  1. (a) having as one of its directors or, as the case may be, partners, a solicitor or an incorporated practice; and
  2. (b) which offers services, including professional services such as are provided by individual solicitors, to the public; and
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  3. (c) where that solicitor or incorporated practice carries out, or supervises the carrying out of, any such professional services as may lawfully be carried out only by a solicitor;
 multi-national practice" means
  1. (a) a partnership whose members are solicitors or incorporated practices and registered foreign lawyers; or
  2. (b) a body corporate whose members include registered foreign lawyers, and membership of which is restricted to solicitors, incorporated practices, registered foreign lawyers and other multi-national practices;";

(ac) after the definition of "property" there shall be inserted— registered foreign lawyer" means a foreign lawyer who is registered under section 60A;".'

Lord Fraser of Carmyllie

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 244.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 244.—(Lord Fraser of Carmyllie.)

[Amendment No. 244A, as an amendment to Commons Amendment No. 244, not moved.]

On Question, Motion agreed to.