LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 158 Application for review

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 158

158 Application for review

(1) A complainant may apply to the Commissioner for a review of any of the following decisions made by a Council:

(a) a decision to dismiss a complaint made by the complainant,

(b) a decision to reprimand the legal practitioner because of the complaint,

(c) a decision to omit, from the allegations particularised in an information laid before the Tribunal in respect of a complaint, matter that was originally part of the complaint made to the Council.

(2) The application for review is to be in writing.

(3) The application for review may be made at any time within 2 months after the decision is notified to the complainant.

(4) If the Council does not notify the complainant of its decision with respect to the complaint within 6 months after the complaint was referred to the Council, the matter may be reviewed under this section or section 159. In that case, the Council is taken to have dismissed the complaint for the purposes of this Division.

(5) The Commissioner may postpone a review referred to in subsection (4) for a specified period if satisfied that there is good reason for the Council's delay in making a decision with respect to the complaint. In that case, the Council is taken to have dismissed the complaint for the purposes of this Division if it does not notify the complainant of its decision within that further specified period.