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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 599 Panel to help the tribunal hear and decide discipline application

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 599

Panel to help the tribunal hear and decide discipline application

599 Panel to help the tribunal hear and decide discipline application

(1) This section applies for the tribunal’s hearing and deciding of a discipline application.
(2) Although panel members do not constitute the tribunal, the tribunal is to be helped by 2 panel members chosen by the tribunal’s principal registrar and approved by the tribunal as constituted under section 598 .
(3) The panel members mentioned in subsection (2) must be—
(a) 1 lay panel member; and
(b) 1 of the following members—
(i) if the complaint is about the conduct of a person who, at the time of performing the acts or omitting to do the acts constituting the conduct complained of, was a barrister or, in the opinion of the tribunal member, was engaged in legal practice in the manner of a barrister—a member of the practitioner panel who is a barrister;
(ii) otherwise—a member of the practitioner panel who is a solicitor.
(4) However, if a panel member disqualifies himself or herself as mentioned in section 612 (2) , the tribunal may continue with the relevant hearing if the tribunal members consider it appropriate to do so.
(5) The tribunal’s principal registrar must keep a record of the names of the panel members helping the tribunal and the discipline application for which the hearing is held.