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Part 2Legal aid
Reconsideration, review, and appeals of legal aid decisions: Reviews

55Review of decision by Tribunal

  1. For the purposes of conducting and determining a review, the Tribunal consists of 1 member of the Tribunal.

  2. The Tribunal may require the Commissioner to provide either or both of the following:

  3. all information held by the Commissioner relating to the reconsideration and the original decision:
    1. a written report setting out the considerations to which the Commissioner had regard in making the decision and when reconsidering it.

      1. The Tribunal may receive and obtain from any person any submission, statement, document, information, or matter that may, in its opinion, assist it to deal effectively with the review before it.

      2. The review must be conducted on the papers, with all reasonable speed.

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