Malaysian Lawyer Scale Fee in Non Contentious Matter
Hi, I have been asked a lot by the readers who are concern about the legal fee chargeable by lawyer in conducting non-contentious matter. I guest most of the people do not exactly know that in non-contentious matter there is a fix scale fee need to be followed strictly by lawyers. What is non-contentious matter? For example contract, agreement, transfer of property ownership and so on which is non litigation and non dispute matter. For the sake of public reference, I append bellow the scale fee under the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 2005 (the scale however only cover certain area of practice, other areas of non contentious matter are not fall under the scale fee and fee chargeable will be determine by certain criterion):- FIRST SCHEDULE [Paragraph 2 (a) ] Sale and Transfer Consideration or Adjudicated Value Scale of Fees For the first RM150,000 1.0% (subject to a minimum fee of RM300) For the next RM850,000 0.7% For the next RM2,000,000 0.6% For the next RM2,000,000 0.5% ...