Fees
15(1)Where a barrister or solicitor provides professional services to a holder of a legal aid certificate other than those services that are authorized by the legal aid certificate, he is not entitled to be paid for those services out of the Legal Aid Fund.
15(2)No barrister or student shall take or receive any payment or other benefit for providing professional services under this Part except as is provided in this Part and the regulations.
15(2.1)Notwithstanding subsection (2), a barrister or solicitor may accept from his client payment by way of reimbursement of disbursements properly made by the barrister or solicitor in matters included in paragraphs 12(1)(
c) to (
g) where such disbursements are not payable out of the Legal Aid Fund.
15(3)A solicitor may refuse to accept as a client a holder of a legal aid certificate, but no solicitor who is approached by a holder of a legal aid certificate seeking legal aid shall accept that person as a client on a remunerative basis other than is provided in this Part and the regulations.
1971, c.11, s.15; 1983, c.46, s.7; 1993, c.21, s.13