Section 50: Jurisdiction of Senior Courts over solicitors.

Solicitors Act 1974 · 1974 c.47

Part II: Professional Practice, Conduct and Discipline of Solicitors and Clerks

50(1)

Any person duly admitted as a solicitor shall be an officer of the Senior Courts; ...

50(2)

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the High Court, the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal respectively, or any division or judge of those courts, may exercise the same jurisdiction in respect of solicitors as any one of the superior courts of law or equity from which the Senior Courts were constituted might have exercised immediately before the passing of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 in respect of any solicitor, attorney or proctor admitted to practise there.

50(3)

An appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal from any order made against a solicitor by the High Court or the Crown Court in the exercise of its jurisdiction in respect of solicitors under subsection (2).

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