LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 384 Purposes—ch 4

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 384

The purposes of this chapter are as follows:

        (a)     to provide a nationally consistent scheme for the discipline of the legal profession in the ACT, in the interests of the administration of justice and for the protection of consumers of the services of the legal profession and the public generally;

        (b)     to promote and enforce the professional standards, competence and honesty of the legal profession;

        (c)     to provide a means of redress for complaints about lawyers;

        (d)     to enable people who are not lawyers to participate in complaints and disciplinary processes involving lawyers.