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APPENDIX 1

CESSATION OF OR CHANGE IN, PRACTICE
(Forms)
NOTICE OF
CESSATION OF PRACTICE AS AN ADVOCATE AND SOLICITOR

Note: This form is to be completed by an Advocate and Solicitor who has ceased or intends to cease practice as an Advocate and Solicitor whether temporarily or permanently and whether as an employee, consultant, sole proprietor or partner. The truth and accuracy of the answers provided must be verified by that Advocate and Solicitor by way of a statutory declaration.

PART 1: Applicable to every Advocate and Solicitor who ceases practice
altogether.

A: Name :
NRIC Number :
Address :

Telephone No :
Fax No :
E-Mail Address :
Mobile Phone No. :

B. Date you ceased or intend to cease practice:

C. Particulars of the firm in which you currently practise/ last practised (delete as appropriate) (hereinafter referred to as the “Firm”):

Name of Firm :
Address :
Telephone No :
Fax No :
E-Mail Address :

Your status in the Firm: Sole Proprietor / Partner / Employee / Consultant (delete as appropriate)

PART 2: Only applicable to an Advocate and Solicitor who has ceased or will cease practice as an Advocate and Solicitor altogether either as a sole proprietor or a partner of a firm.

D. Please answer the following questions if you are or were a partner of a firm of Advocates and Solicitors. Please set out your answers on additional sheets of paper to be attached hereto.

(i) Name/s of the other partner/s of the firm in which you were or are a partner:

(ii) After your cessation of practice, will the firm in which you were or are a partner continue in practice as a firm of Advocates and Solicitors?

(iii) If the firm in which you were or are a partner has ceased or intends to cease practice as a firm of Advocates and Solicitors:

(a) have all its clients been given notice to this effect, and if so when and how?

(b) describe what steps have been or will be taken to protect the interest of its clients – their documents and files:

(c) Describe what steps have been or will be taken in respect of monies in its clients account/s:

(d) Are/is its clients account/s closed? If so, when and with which Bank/s and provide particulars of the account/s.

E. Please answer the following questions if you are or were the sole proprietor of a firm of Advocates and Solicitors. Please set out your answers on additional sheets of paper to be attached hereto.

(i) Have all your clients been given notice of your cessation or intended cessation of practice and if so, when and how?

(ii) Describe what steps have been or will be taken to protect the interest of your clients – their documents and files:

(iii) Describe what steps have been or will be taken in respect of monies in the clients account/s:

(iv) Are/is the clients account/s closed? If so, when and with which Bank/s and provide particulars of the account/s.

FORM FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS / PRACTICE

Name:………………………………………………………………………………..

National Registration Identity Card Number:.. .…………………………………….
[NRIC]

Statutory Declaration

I, ___________________________________________________________________ (NRIC No. ____________________________) an advocate & solicitor of the

High Court of Malaya residing at _____________________________________________________ do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows: -


The information contained in the form of Notice of Cessation of practice as an Advocate and Solicitor attached to this Statutory Declaration is true and accurate.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act, 1960.



Affirmed by the said____________)

___________________________)                                     ___________________________

this ________day of ___________)



Before me,


_________________________________
Commissioner for Oaths