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.