Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 277

277 Law practice liable for costs of examination

(1) A law practice whose trust accounts have been externally examined must pay the costs of the examination.

(2) If the law society appointed the external examiner to carry out the examination, the law society may decide the reasonable amount payable as the costs of the examination, and the amount is a debt payable to it by the law practice.

(3) The law society must, before seeking to recover an amount mentioned in subsection (2) , give the law practice an information notice about the decision stating the amount payable.

(4) The law practice may appeal, to a court having jurisdiction for the amount payable, against the decision within 28 days after the day the information notice is given to the practice.