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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Procedure

209: Power to direct reconsideration of complaints, matters, or decisions

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"The Legal Complaints Review Officer can ask a committee to rethink a decision about a complaint."

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The Legal Complaints Review Officer can tell a Standards Committee to think again about a complaint or decision. You might get a new decision after this. The Officer gives reasons for telling the Committee to reconsider. The Standards Committee must think about what the Legal Complaints Review Officer says when making a new decision. The Officer can also ask the Committee to report back after making a new decision. The Committee must follow the Officer's directions when reconsidering a complaint or decision. The Legal Complaints Review Officer can give more directions about how the Committee should reconsider a complaint or decision. This helps the Committee make a new decision. You can find more information about this in the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Procedure

209Power to direct reconsideration of complaints, matters, or decisions

  1. The Legal Complaints Review Officer may—

  2. direct a Standards Committee to reconsider and determine, either generally or in respect of any specified matters, the whole or any part of the complaint, matter, or decision to which any application for review relates:
    1. give to a Standards Committee, in any case where the Legal Complaints Review Officer gives a direction under paragraph (a),—
      1. his or her reasons for the direction; and
        1. such other directions as he or she thinks just as to the reconsideration or otherwise of the whole or any part of the complaint, matter, or decision that is referred back for reconsideration:
        2. request, in giving a direction under paragraph (a), that the Standards Committee supply a follow-up report to him or her when it has complied with the direction.

          1. A Standards Committee, in reconsidering any complaint, matter, or decision referred back to it under subsection (1)(a), must have regard to the direction given by the Legal Complaints Review Officer and to his or her reasons for giving the direction.

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