Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Standards Committees

131: Rules relating to Standards Committees

You could also call this:

"Rules for how Standards Committees handle complaints and do their job"

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You need to follow some rules about Standards Committees. These rules tell you how the committee works with complaints. They also say how the committee does its job and what powers it has. You can find out about the complaints service from published information. This information tells you how to access the service and make a complaint. The committee also publishes information about how well the complaints service is doing. There are rules about complaining about a bill of costs. These rules might say you can only complain if the bill is over a certain amount. The committee can publish the name of someone who has been censured, but only in certain circumstances.

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130: Functions of Standards Committees, or

"What the Standards Committee does to help with complaints and problems"

132: Complaints about practitioners, incorporated firms, and their employees, or

"How to complain about a lawyer or legal service"

Part 7Complaints and discipline
Standards Committees

131Rules relating to Standards Committees

The rules governing the operation of a Standards Committee must include, but are not limited to,—
rules providing details of the procedures to be followed in relation to complaints:
rules specifying the manner in which a Standards Committee is to exercise its functions and powers:
rules providing for—
1. the publication of information relating to the existence of the complaints service; and
2. the means by which a person may gain access to the complaints service; and
3. the means by which a complaint may be made:
rules providing for the publication of information regarding the outcomes and the performance of the complaints service:
rules specifying the criteria that will apply in relation to a complaint about a bill of costs, which criteria may provide that a complaint is not to be dealt with unless the bill of costs to which the complaint relates is for a sum that exceeds an amount specified in the rules:
rules specifying the circumstances in which the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers or a Standards Committee may publish the identity of a person who has been censured by a Standards Committee.