SIERRA LEONE LAW SCHOOL

2023/2024

MODULE – PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE,

ADVOCACY AND ETHICS

TUTOR – JUSTICE FYNN

STUDENT REGISTRATION NUMBER - 3958
FACTOR ALL AMENDMENTS TO THE LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT NO.15
2000. DO IT IN A FORM OF A CHART. STATE THE NAME, YEAR,
AMENDMENT SECTIONS AND WHAT THEY STATE.

ANSWER:
NO AMENDMENT AMENDED AMENDMENT PROVISIONS AND
. ACT &YEAR SECTIONS IN THE SECTIONS IN THE AMENDMENT ACTS
LEGAL
PRACTITIONERS
ACT 2000
1 Legal Subsections 1 and 2 of Section 1(3)
Notwithstanding subsection (2), a person referred
Practitioners Section 15 to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) shall
(Amendment) be granted an exemption from the requirements of
section 10 in respect of his employment as a legal
Act NO.13, 2004 practitioner either in the Judicial and Legal
Service or otherwise in the service of the State,
while he remains so employed.

Subsections: 1, 3, 4 and Section 2

(1) After holding an inquiry into a disciplinary
5 of section 36 case, the Disciplinary Committee shall submit a
report of the inquiry to the Council in which it
shall state whether the allegations inquired into
have been proved, and if it so states, it shall
recommend to the Council to take any of the
following disciplinary measures against the legal
practitioner:–

(3) The Council may, if it thinks fit, postpone

either indefinitely or for a specified period, the
making of its decision whether to take the
disciplinary measures recommended by the
Disciplinary Committee under subsection (1).

(4) The Disciplinary Committee shall, at the end

of each inquiry, record its findings and
recommendations to the Council in writing which
shall be signed by the Chairman and kept by the
Secretary.

(5) No member of the Council or Disciplinary

Committee shall be liable to any action, suit or
other legal proceeding for any thing said or done
by him during an inquiry or pursuant to any
recommendation made after an inquiry.
 Subsections 1 and 2 of
Section 2
section 37 (1) Where, upon the recommendations of the
Disciplinary Committee, the Council decides to
take any disciplinary measures, the legal
practitioner into whose conduct the inquiry was
made shall be notified accordingly and he may,
within three months from the date on which the
decision of the Council was communicated to him,
appeal to the Court of Appeal.

(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), any party

to the inquiry aggrieved by any decision of the
Council under subsection (1) may also appeal to
the Court of Appeal.

2 Legal Subsection 1 para.(b) Section 15 of the Legal Practitioners Act, 2000 is

amended in subsection (1) by the substitution for
Practitioners of section 15 the words “ten years” appearing in paragraph (b)
(Amendment) thereof, of the words “five years”.

Act NO.2, 2005

3 Legal Section 10 para. (a)(i) Section 1
Practitioners The holder of a degree in law awarded by the
University of Sierra Leone, the University
(Amendment) of Makeni or any other University
established in Sierra Leone of such level as
Act NO.2 2015 the Council of Legal Education.