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SUPREME COURT ACT 1933 - SECT 11

Exercise of jurisdiction—legal practitioners

    (1)     The jurisdiction of the court in an application for admission to the legal profession must be exercised by a Full Court unless the Chief Justice directs otherwise.

    (2)     The jurisdiction of the court in a proceeding in relation to the grant, renewal, amendment, suspension or cancellation of a practising certificate under the Legal Profession Act 2006 must be exercised by a Full Court.

    (3)     The jurisdiction of the court in relation to an application under the Legal Profession Act 2006 , section 96 or section 97 in relation to the removal of a lawyer's name from the local roll must be exercised by a Full Court.

    (4)     Nothing in this section prevents a single judge, in proceedings referred to in subsection (2) or (3), from—

        (a)     making any findings of fact; or

        (b)     giving directions of an interlocutory kind.

    (5)     A single judge who has heard any part of proceedings referred to in subsection (3) for the purpose of making any findings of fact may be 1 of the judges who exercise the jurisdiction of the court in those proceedings under that subsection.



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