Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 246

246 Barristers not to receive trust money

(1) A barrister is not, in the course of practising as a barrister, to receive trust money.

(2) Subsection (1) does not—

(a) prevent a barrister receiving money in payment of legal services that the barrister has performed; and

(b) limit the bar association’s power to make legal profession rules in relation to banking arrangements for fees received in advance by a barrister.