Description
The speaker will highlight and discuss the many issues and problems faced by conveyancing lawyers on how to charge fees under the SRO:
- Meaning of non-contentious business.
- Basic principles on how to charge fees.
- Composition of remuneration under the SRO.
- What are disbursements reasonably and properly paid and incurred?
- Can a solicitor charge more than the prescribed fees under the SRO?
- How to apply the discount of up to 25% of fees prescribed under the SRO.
- Transactions under the First Schedule to the Sixth Schedule.
- When are transactions completed?
- Waiver of fees.
- Consequences of non-compliance
Speaker
ANDREW WONG was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1978 and was a member of the Bar Council from 1987-1989. He was the Chairman of the Conveyancing Practice Committee (CPC) from 2008-2010 and the Chairman of the Solicitors’ Remuneration Enforcement Committee (SREC) for many years. He was a member of the Solicitors Costs Committee (SCC) constituted under section 113 of the Legal Profession Act 1976, when the SCC made the latest SRO 2023 [P.U.(A) 207/2023], which came into force on 15 July 2023. He is currently a member of the CPC and the SREC.
Terms and Conditions
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