Legal Profession Act 2006

This section applies to the following names, titles and descriptions:

 lawyer

 legal practitioner

 barrister or counsel

 solicitor or attorney

 Queen’s Counsel, King’s Counsel, Her Majesty’s Counsel, His Majesty’s Counsel or Senior Counsel.

A regulation may prescribe the kind of people who are entitled, and the circumstances in which they are entitled, to take or use a name, title or description to which this section applies.

For section 17 (1) (Prohibition on representing or advertising entitlement to engage in legal practice if not entitled), the taking or using of a name, title or description to which this section applies by someone who is not entitled to take or use it, or in circumstances in which someone is not entitled to take or use it, gives rise to a rebuttable presumption that the person represented that the person is entitled to engage in legal practice.