New South Wales Repealed Acts New South Wales Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) Proceedings may be instituted in the Tribunal with respect to a complaint against a legal practitioner by an information laid by the appropriate Council or the Commissioner in accordance with this Part.
(2) The Tribunal is to conduct a hearing into each allegation particularised in the information.
(3) Before the commencement of the hearing, the legal practitioner must file a reply to the allegations in the information in accordance with the rules of the Tribunal and the directions of the Registrar of the Tribunal.
(4) The Tribunal may, subject to its rules and the rules of procedural fairness, order the joinder of any 2 informations against the same or different legal practitioners.
(5) This includes the power to order, if it is in the interests of justice to do so, the joinder of:(a) more than one information against the same solicitor or barrister, or(b) an information against one or more barristers and an information against one or more solicitors if all informations are founded on the same, or closely related, acts or omissions.