Section 21: Right of audience
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21. Right of audience
(1) Subject to subsection (2), every law practitioner, other than a notary,
shall have a right of audience before any Court.
(2) No attorney shall appear before—
(a) the Supreme Court, other than in Chambers, the Bankruptcy
Division or the Master’s Court; or
(b) the Intermediate Court,
except in formal matters.
(2A) Notwithstanding subsection (2), where an attorney appears for a
plaintiff in a civil suit before the Intermediate Court, and the defendant does
not appear or admits the claim, the attorney may proceed to conduct the
case until judgment.
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(3) Notwithstanding sections 3, 6 and 10M, the Chief Justice may, in
specific cases where the special nature or circumstances of proceedings
before the Supreme Court so require, grant to a foreign lawyer a right of
audience before the Supreme Court on such terms and conditions as he
thinks fit to impose.
(4) (a) Notwithstanding sections 3 and 6, a prospective barrister or
attorney who has completed 6 months of pupillage may, in the presence of
his pupil master, represent his pupil master’s client at any stage of any proceedings before a Magistrate other than—
(i) a trial on the merits;
(ii) arguments on a matter of law; or
(iii) submissions at the end of a case.
(b) Every pupil master shall ensure that a prospective barrister or
attorney who is his pupil is suitably attired for the purposes of paragraph (a).
[S. 21 amended by Act 29 of 1992; s. 9 of Act 8 of 2008 w.e.f. 15 December 2008; s. 15 of
Act 30 of 2011 w.e.f. 3 September 2012.]