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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Legal Complaints Review Officer

197: Applicants in other cases

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"Who can ask for a review of a Standards Committee's decision?"

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You can apply for a review of a Standards Committee's decision if you are the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers. You can also apply if you have permission from the New Zealand Law Society, the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers, or the Legal Complaints Review Officer. You do this under section 193. You cannot review a Standards Committee's order to send a complaint to the Tribunal. This rule does not affect other parts of the law, like section 205. This means you must follow the rules in section 205 as well. If a Standards Committee makes a decision, you might be able to apply for a review under section 193, but only in certain cases.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Legal Complaints Review Officer

197Applicants in other cases

  1. In the case of the performance or exercise by a Standards Committee (or by any other person on its behalf or with its authority) of any of its functions or powers (not being functions or powers to which sections 194 to 196 apply), a person may apply under section 193 for a review of the performance or exercise of those functions or powers if that person is—

  2. the New Zealand Law Society; or
    1. the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers; or
      1. any other person who has the leave of the New Zealand Law Society or the New Zealand Society of Conveyancers or the Legal Complaints Review Officer to apply.

        1. Nothing in this section authorises the review of any order of a Standards Committee that any complaint or matter be considered by the Tribunal.

        2. This section is subject to section 205.