Section 85: Bank accounts.

Solicitors Act 1974 · 1974 c.47

Part IV: Miscellaneous and General

85

Where a solicitor keeps an account with a bank or a building society in pursuance of rules under section 32—

(a) the bank or society shall not incur any liability, or be under any obligation to make any inquiry, or be deemed to have any knowledge of any right of any person to any money paid or credited to the account, which it would not incur or be under or be deemed to have in the case of an account kept by a person entitled absolutely to all the money paid or credited to it; and

(b) the bank or society shall not have any recourse or right against money standing to the credit of the account, in respect of any liability of the solicitor to the bank, other than a liability in connection with the account.

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