The duty in context
No standing bail or surety for client client
The lawyer must not stand bail or provide a surety for their own client, or be party to indemnifying a surety, without the regulator's prior consent where required.
How the codes express this duty
E&W Solicitors SRA Principles & Code no clear equivalent
E&W Barristers BSB Handbook no clear equivalent
Cayman Islands Legal Services Code 2026 R.7.10 strong
An attorney-at-law shall not stand bail or provide a surety for a client without obtaining the prior consent of the Council.
Cayman Islands Legal Services Code of Professional Conduct · 2026 · archived copy
AU Solicitors Solicitors' Conduct Rules Rule 17.4 strong 7 cases
A solicitor must not become the surety for the client's bail.
Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules · 2015 (June 2026 compilation) · archived copy · official source ↗
AU Barristers Uniform Barristers Rules no clear equivalent
IE Solicitors Law Society Guide Ch5 — The solicitor standing bail strong
A solicitor should not stand bail for a person for whom they or their firm act. It is unlawful for any person, including a solicitor, to be a party to a bargain to indemnify a surety for bail.
Solicitor's Guide to Professional Conduct (Law Society of Ireland) · 4th ed. (2022) · archived copy · official source ↗
IE Barristers Bar Code of Conduct no clear equivalent
JM Attorneys Canons of Professional Ethics no clear equivalent
JE Lawyers Law Society of Jersey Code R.6.10 strong
A member must not stand bail or provide a surety for a client without obtaining the prior consent of the Committee of the Law Society.
Law Society of Jersey Code of Conduct · 1 January 2017 · archived copy · official source ↗
ON Lawyers LSO Rules of Prof. Conduct r 3.4-40 strong
Subject to Rule 3.4-41, a lawyer shall not in respect of any accused person for whom the lawyer acts (a) act as a surety for the accused; (b) deposit with a court the lawyer's own money or that of any firm in which the lawyer is a partner to secure the accused's release; (c) deposit with any court other valuable security to secure the accused's release; or (d) act in a supervisory capacity to the accused.
Law Society of Ontario — Rules of Professional Conduct · current · archived copy · official source ↗
BC Lawyers BC Code r 3.4-40 strong
A lawyer must not act as a surety for, deposit money or other valuable security for, or act in a supervisory capacity to an accused person for whom the lawyer acts.
Code of Professional Conduct for British Columbia (BC Code) · 2017 · archived copy · official source ↗
NZ Lawyers Conduct & Client Care Rules no clear equivalent
SCO Solicitors LSS Standards of Conduct no clear equivalent
SG Lawyers Professional Conduct Rules 2015 no clear equivalent
HK Solicitors Solicitors' Guide Principle 10.19 strong
It is unlawful for any person, including a solicitor, to be a party to a bargain to indemnify a surety for bail. No solicitor or his employee may act as surety for bail for a client of the firm without the prior written consent of the Council, which consent would be forthcoming only in the most exceptional circumstances.
Hong Kong Solicitors' Guide to Professional Conduct (Volume 1) · current · archived copy · official source ↗
HK Barristers Bar Code of Conduct no clear equivalent
Cases dealing with this duty
10 decisions · link basis: found breached = a tribunal finding; rule cited = the mapped provision is cited in the decision; text match = high-precision text pattern
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Rohan Slater
Charge is proved and professional misconduct is established
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Bing Han
Guilty of professional misconduct on 1 charge
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Clark, Jessica (Aka Reanna Biancé) Chanelle
Breached rule 17.4 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015 (NSW) - Independence—avoidance of personal bias - A solicitor must not become the surety for the client’s bail — Unsatisfa…
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Craig Selwyn Lee JENSEN
Guilty of Professional Misconduct
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Markovski, Norma Miniano
1. Acted for Argyrios Tsantilis and Aspasie Tsantilis on a loan made to them of which they had no knowledge 2. Purporting to witness signatures of Argyrios Tsantilis and Aspasie Tsantilis on a Statutory Declaration date…
Additional Orders made by the Tribunal (see Tribunal decision) Conditions on Practising Certificate Practitioner to undertake and complete further legal education Reprimand $0.00 Proceedings Instituted 1 PDF View decision -
Colin Philip Henry Murray
The Respondent’s conduct in relation to charge 1 is proved and is found to constitute professional misconduct.
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Mark Raymond Donnelly
The conduct the subject of charges 4, 5 and 6 of the discipline application filed 20 December 2024 constitutes professional misconduct
Reprimand; Pecuniary Penalty; Restriction on grant of practising cert.; Undertake Trust Accounting Course; Undertake Practice Management Course 1 PDF View decision -
Duty classification does not yet cover every jurisdiction (Ontario, New Zealand and Singapore decisions are indexed but not yet duty-classified), so counts here understate those corpora.