Section 91

the Bar Council has reasonable cause to believe that the personal representatives of a deceased advocate and solicitor who immediately before his death was practising as an advocate and solicitor in his own name, or as a sole

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advocate and solicitor under a firm name, have been guilty of dishonesty or undue delay in administering the affairs of that advocate and solicitor’s practice or in connection with any trust of which that advocate and solicitor was the sole trustee or co-trustee only with one or more of his clerks or servants; or

an advocate and solicitor dies and immediately before his death the Schedule applied to him, the Schedule, other than paragraph 7 thereof, shall apply in relation to the personal representatives and shall continue to apply to the personal representatives of the advocate and solicitor last mentioned as they apply or applied, as the case may be, in relation to the advocate and solicitor referred to in those provisions and as if the words “the personal representatives” were, with the necessary adaptations, substituted for the words “the advocate and solicitor” wherever these words occur in those provisions.

In this section, the words “trust” and “trustee” have the same meanings as in subsection 78(6).

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