26 Offence for solicitors to act as agents for unqualified persons
Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (1980 c 46) | Legislation

Restriction on Rights of Practising

26  Offence for solicitors to act as agents for unqualified persons

(1)     Any solicitor to whom this subsection applies who [or incorporated practice which] upon the account or for the profit of any unqualified person—

(a)     acts as agent in any action or proceedings in any court, or

(b)     permits or suffers his [or, as the case may be, its] name to be made use of in any way in any such action or proceedings; or

(c)     [subject to subsection (4),] draws or prepares any writ to which section 32 applies, or

(d)     [subject to subsection (4),] permits or suffers

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