Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Procedure

208: Disclosure of evidence and information to parties

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"Getting to see and comment on evidence and information in a legal case"

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When evidence and information are found under section 207(1), you get to see it. You also get to comment on it. The Legal Complaints Review Officer decides what you see. They tell you why they made that decision.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Procedure

208Disclosure of evidence and information to parties

  1. Subject to subsection (2), all evidence and information received or ascertained under section 207(1) must be disclosed to every party, and every party must be given an opportunity to comment on it.

  2. Where, in the opinion of the Legal Complaints Review Officer, there is good reason for not disclosing to every party any evidence or information received or ascertained under section 207(1) or for withholding from a party some of the evidence or information so received or ascertained, the Legal Complaints Review Officer may, as the case requires,—

  3. refuse to disclose that evidence or information to that party; or
    1. give that evidence or information to that party after the Legal Complaints Review Officer has made to it such deletions or alterations as he or she considers necessary.
      1. If, under subsection (2), the Legal Complaints Review Officer takes, in respect of any party, either of the actions referred to in subsection (2), the Legal Complaints Review Officer must give to that party the reasons for the action taken by the Legal Complaints Review Officer.

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