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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Legal Complaints Review Officer

194: Applicants in relation to complaints

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"Who can ask for a review of a complaint decision?"

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You can apply for a review of a decision made by a Standards Committee about a complaint. This is if you are the person who made the complaint, the person the complaint is about, or someone related to them. You can also apply if you are the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers, depending on who the complaint is about. You can apply under section 193 for a review of a decision. This includes decisions to take no action or no further action on a complaint. You might be able to apply for a review if you are affected by the decision. If you want to apply for a review, you need to be one of the people listed, like the complainant or the person the complaint is about. The New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers might also be able to apply. They can apply if the complaint is about one of their members or someone who works for them.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Legal Complaints Review Officer

194Applicants in relation to complaints

  1. This section applies to any determination, requirement, or order made, or direction given, by a Standards Committee (or by any person on its behalf or with its authority)—

  2. in relation to a complaint (including a decision to take no action or no further action on a complaint); or
    1. on a matter arising from a complaint.

      1. A person may apply under section 193 for a review of a determination, requirement, order, or direction to which this section applies if that person is—

      2. the complainant; or
        1. the person in respect of whom the complaint was made; or
          1. a person who, or body that, at the time when the complaint was made, was, in relation to the practitioner or former practitioner in respect of whom the complaint was made, a related person or entity; or
            1. the New Zealand Law Society (if the person in respect of whom the complaint was made was, or had been, a lawyer or an incorporated law firm or an employee of a lawyer or incorporated law firm); or
              1. the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers (if the person in respect of whom the complaint was made was, or had been, a conveyancing practitioner or an incorporated conveyancing firm or an employee of a conveyancing practitioner or incorporated conveyancing firm).