Consolidated practice directions

 
5(d)
Ceremonial Sittings (including Admissions) 
Hearing type 
Robes 
All ceremonial sittings 
(including Admissions) 
Yes 
Applicants for admission as practitioners 
(Admissions Ceremonies) 
No 
 
 
Attire when robing is not required
6. 
If the Court has not made an order to robe and where robing is not 
required in accordance with pars 5(a) - (d) above, judicial officers and 
counsel will wear contemporary clothing of an appropriate standard - 
namely, jacket and tie for men and apparel of a corresponding standard 
for women.

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10. Practitioners 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
10.5
Practising Solely as a Barrister 
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Background 
 
1.
For many years, it has been the practice in Western Australia for legal 
practitioners who choose to practise solely as barristers to announce 
their intention to do so to the Full Court at the first sittings following 
the commencement of their practice as an independent barrister.
Announcement 
 
2.
The Court considers the announcement of an intention to practise 
solely as a barrister as indicating that the practitioner will practise 
according to the manner, style, customs and rules of conduct of an 
independent barrister pursuant to the condition indorsed on his or her 
practising certificate. 
3.
To this end, practitioners who make the announcement are expected 
to: 
(a) 
work solely as independent barristers, which work comprises: 
(i) 
appearing as an advocate; 
(ii) 
preparing to appear as an advocate; 
(iii) 
negotiating for a client with an opponent to compromise 
a case; 
(iv) 
representing a client in a mediation or arbitration or 
other method of alternative dispute resolution; 
(v) 
giving legal advice; 
(vi) 
preparing or advising on documents to be used by a 
client or others in relation to the client's case or other 
affairs; 
(vii) carrying out work properly incidental to the kinds of 
work referred to in (i)-(vi); and 
(viii) such other work as is from time to time commonly 
carried out by barristers; and 

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10. Practitioners 
PD 10.5 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
(b) 
be sole practitioners, meaning that they must not; 
(i) 
practise in partnership with any person; 
(ii) 
practise as an employer of any legal practitioner who 
acts as a legal practitioner in the course of that 
employment; 
(iii) 
practise as the employee of any person; 
(iv) 
be a legal practitioner director of an incorporated legal 
practice; or 
(v) 
be a member of a multi-disciplinary partnership; and 
(c) 
abide by the conduct rules generally recognised by the 
profession as applying to the practice of a barrister. 

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