You can apply to suspend a practitioner from working. This happens when a Standards Committee lays a charge against them under section 154(a). The Standards Committee can ask the Disciplinary Tribunal to suspend the practitioner. You can suspend the practitioner from working as a barrister, solicitor, both, or conveyancing practitioner. The suspension happens while the charge is being decided. The Disciplinary Tribunal makes the decision about the suspension. The Standards Committee makes the application to the Tribunal. The application is for the practitioner to be suspended until the charge is decided. This is done to stop the practitioner from working during this time.
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154: Reference of complaint or matter to Disciplinary Tribunal, or
"When a complaint about a lawyer is serious, it gets sent to a special tribunal to decide what happens next."
156: Power of Standards Committee to make orders, or
"The Standards Committee can make decisions about lawyers who do something wrong."
If, under section 154(a), a Standards Committee lays before the Disciplinary Tribunal a charge against a practitioner, the Standards Committee may apply to the Tribunal for an order that, pending the determination of the charge, the practitioner be suspended from practice—
