Singapore legislation
Clause 112
Clause 112
Orders as to remuneration of solicitors for non-contentious business
(1)
For the purposes of this section there shall be a committee consisting of the following persons: —
the Chief Justice;
the Attorney-General;
the President of the Society;
two solicitors nominated by the Council; and
the Registrar of Titles.
(2)
The Committee or any four of the members thereof (the Chief Justice being one) may make general orders prescribing and regulating in such manner as they think fit the remuneration of solicitors in respect of non-contentious business and any order made under this section may revoke or alter any previous order so made.
(3)
An order made under this section may, as regards the mode of remuneration, prescribe that it shall be according to a scale of rates of commission or percentage, varying or not in different classes of business, or by a gross sum, or by a fixed sum for each document prepared or perused, without regard to length, or in any other mode, or partly in one mode and partly in another, and may regulate the amount of remuneration with reference to all or any of the following, among other, considerations, that is to say: —
the position of the party for whom the solicitor is concerned in the business, that is, whether as vendor or purchaser, lessor or lessee, mortgagor or mortgagee, and the like;
the place where, and the circumstances in which, the business or any part thereof is transacted;
the amount of the capital money or rent to which the business relates;
the skill, labour and responsibility involved therein on the part of the solicitor;
the number and importance of the documents prepared or perused, without regard to length.
(4)
An order under this section may authorise and regulate —
the taking by a solicitor from his client of security for payment of any remuneration, to be ascertained by taxation or otherwise, which may become due to him under any such order; and
the allowance of interest.
(5)
So long as an order made under this section is in operation, taxation of bills of costs of solicitors in respect of non-contentious business shall, subject to the provisions of the section 113 of this Act, be regulated by that order.
(6)
The provisions of section 134 of this Act shall apply to any order made under this section.