Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 88A

88A. (1)A law firm shall be registered in the Register maintained by the Committee following an application in writing submitted to the Committee and no partnership or association of persons or other legal entity, howsoever formed and called, sha ll act or hold itself out as being a law firm and no person shall be entitled, recognised or authorised to act in the name and on be half of a law firm unless and until it has been duly registered as aforesaid: Provided that law firms alread y in existence shall have to be registered within twelve (12) months from the coming into fo rce of this provision, and following such date no person shall be entitled, recognised or authorised to act in the name and on be half of an unregistered law firm. (2) The application for registration shall include the following information and documentation: (a) name of the law firm; (b) name and surname, date of birth, place of residence and identification number of each member of that law firm; (c) the name of those advocates vested with the representation and management of the law firm; and (d) the address of the place from where the law firm shall be providing its services. (3) Without prejudice to the provisions of the proviso to sub- article (1), any person, not being an advocate, who makes use o f the designation "law firm" or any similar designation, whether writ ten or otherwise, or of any other form of language or words that ca n be perceived as a law firm or which misleadingly imply the existen ce of a law firm providing legal services in Malta, when no such l aw firm is registered in the Regist er maintained by the Committee, shall be guilty of an offence a nd shall, on conviction, be liab le to a fine ( multa ) not exceeding twelve thou sand euro (€12,000) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six (6) months or to both such fine and imprisonment. Name of law firms. Added by: XIX.2021.11.