Courts and Legal Services Act 1990

13E+WIn section 32 of that Act (accounts rules and trust account rules), the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5)—

“(6)For the purposes of this section and section 33 references to clients’ money and money of a kind mentioned in subsection (1)(b) of this section or (1)(a) of section 33 include references to money held by a solicitor as a stakeholder (whether or not paid by a client of his).”