Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Powers of Legal Complaints Review Officer

203: Scope of review of final determination

You could also call this:

"Checking if a decision about your complaint was made fairly"

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You can ask the Legal Complaints Review Officer to review a final decision made by a Standards Committee. The Officer can look at all parts of the decision or just some of them. This includes looking at how the Standards Committee investigated your complaint. You can also ask the Officer to review how the Standards Committee looked into your complaint. This includes any investigation the Committee did themselves or got someone else to do for them. The Officer can check if the investigation was done properly. The Legal Complaints Review Officer can check the work of the Standards Committee to make sure it was done correctly. This helps ensure that your complaint was handled fairly. The Officer's review can give you a clearer understanding of what happened with your complaint.

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Crime and justice > Courts and legal help

202: General powers, or

"The Legal Complaints Review Officer has extra powers to do their job."

204: Power to obtain information, or

"The Legal Complaints Review Officer can ask for information to investigate complaints about lawyers or conveyancers."

Part 7Complaints and discipline
Powers of Legal Complaints Review Officer

203Scope of review of final determination

The Legal Complaints Review Officer may, in reviewing a final determination of a Standards Committee, review all the aspects, or any of the aspects,—
of any inquiry carried out by or on behalf of a Standards Committee in relation to the complaint or matter to which the final determination relates; and
of any investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Standards Committee in relation to the complaint or matter to which the final determination relates (including any investigation conducted by an investigator or any other person on behalf of or with the authority of the Standards Committee).