Contributed by Emily Lee Lai Ming (Executive Officer)
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:03am
On January 12, a team of members from the Solicitors Remuneration Enforcement
Committee (SREC) visited a legal firm in Kuantan, Pahang to verify the
information contained in the legal firm’s return for 2005 transactions. The
partners of the firm gave their full cooperation by furnishing explanation and
further documentary evidence of the reported transactions which were required by
the team of enforcers.
A scheduled visit to another legal firm in Kuantan on January 11 was postponed
at the last minute as the firm had written in to state that their conveyancing
partner was overseas.
In conjunction with the enforcement visit, members of the SREC gave a talk on
“SRO Enforcement”, organised by the Pahang Bar Committee. The talk was held on
January 12 at the Pahang Bar Building in Kuantan. The SREC was represented by
Tony Woon (Bar Councillor from Negeri Sembilan), Asmadi Awang (Bar Councillor
from Terengganu) and Andrew Wong.
The talk was chaired by Sazali Abdul Aziz, Chairman of the Pahang Bar and about
30 members of the Pahang Bar attended. There was a lively discussion on what a
solicitor may or may not charge as disbursements and on how to charge fees for
certain transactions. It appeared that many members of the Pahang Bar are not well
versed with the SRO 2005 despite the many circulars sent out by the Bar Council
on conveyancing practice.
Meanwhile, when contacted, Roger Tan, the Chairman of the SREC, announced that
the SREC will be making visits to legal firms in 2 other states in February and
March 2007.
"The SREC will also continue to request the solicitor in
charge of the transactions reported in their respective firm’s return, to attend
personally, if necessary, before the SREC to provide further information on
their reported transactions", said Tan.
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On January 12, a team of members from the Solicitors Remuneration Enforcement
Committee (SREC) visited a legal firm in Kuantan, Pahang to verify the
information contained in the legal firm’s return for 2005 transactions. The
partners of the firm gave their full cooperation by furnishing explanation and
further documentary evidence of the reported transactions which were required by
the team of enforcers.
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Just a short note to say thank you to the SRO enforcement team. Keep up the good work. yes, please visit firms from other states too.