Singapore legislation

Regulation 3

of Legal Profession (Deposit Interest) Rules

Regulation 3

Client’s remedies

Subregulation 1

Without prejudice to any other remedy which may be available to him, any client who feels aggrieved that interest, or a sum equivalent thereto, has not been paid to him under these Rules shall be entitled to require the solicitor to obtain a certificate from the Council as to whether or not interest ought to have been earned for him.

Subregulation 2

If so, the amount of such interest and on the issue of such a certificate the sum certified to be due shall be payable by the solicitor to the client.