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LEGAL PROFESSION AMENDMENT ACT 2007 (NO. 28 OF 2007) - SECT 169

Contingency fees prohibited

Section 285 (1)

substitute

    (1)     A law practice must not enter into a costs agreement under which the amount payable to the practice, or any part of that amount, is worked out by reference to the amount of any award or settlement or the value of any property that may be recovered in any proceeding to which the agreement relates.



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