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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 124 Objects of Part relating to users of legal services

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 124

Objects of Part relating to users of legal services

124 Objects of Part relating to users of legal services

The objects of this Part relating to the users of legal services are:

(a) to give every person the right to complain about the conduct of legal practitioners, and
(b) to give users of legal services access to sufficient advice and assistance in order to make and pursue complaints in accordance with this Part and to understand their rights and responsibilities under this Part, and
(c) to provide an opportunity for mediation of consumer disputes relating to legal services, and
(d) to give complainants immunity from civil liability for communications made by them in connection with the official complaints and disciplinary system, and
(e) to provide complainants with a reasonable opportunity to rebut statements of the legal practitioner against whom the complaint is made before the complaint is disposed of, and
(f) to ensure that complainants receive adequate notice of the institution and status of disciplinary proceedings at relevant stages of the proceedings (including notice of the dismissal of complaints and the reasons for the dismissal), and
(g) to give complainants the right to seek an independent review of decisions of Councils to dismiss complaints or merely reprimand legal practitioners.