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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal

227: Functions of Disciplinary Tribunal

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"The Disciplinary Tribunal is like a court that deals with lawyers and conveyancers who may have done something wrong."

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The Disciplinary Tribunal has many jobs. You can think of it like a court that deals with lawyers and conveyancers who may have done something wrong. The Tribunal hears and decides on applications and charges against these professionals. The Tribunal can hear applications to suspend a practitioner while a charge is being decided. You can also appeal to the Tribunal if you are not happy with a decision made by someone else. The Tribunal can make rules about how it works, as long as those rules are consistent with the Act. The Tribunal's jobs include hearing applications to restore someone's name to the roll of lawyers or conveyancers. It can also hear applications to revoke an order made against someone. The Tribunal can decide if a practitioner or firm can employ someone who has been suspended or had their name removed from the roll. The Tribunal has other jobs too, like performing functions given to it by the Act or other laws. It can hear and decide on applications made under sections like section 246, section 247, and section 42. The Tribunal can also hear applications made under section 248 and decide on applications related to orders made under section 242(1)​(h).

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227Functions of Disciplinary Tribunal

  1. The functions of the Disciplinary Tribunal are—

  2. to hear and determine any application made by a Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer for the suspension of a practitioner pending the determination of a charge that the Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer has laid against that practitioner:
    1. to hear and determine any charge against a practitioner or former practitioner or an incorporated firm or former incorporated firm or an employee or former employee of a practitioner or an incorporated firm that is made to it by a Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer:
      1. to hear and determine any application made by a person under section 246 for the restoration of his or her name to the roll or to the register of conveyancers:
        1. to hear and determine any application made by a person under section 247 for the revocation of an order made under section 242(1)(h):
          1. to hear and determine any appeal under section 42:
            1. to hear and determine any application made by a practitioner or an incorporated firm under section 248 for the consent of the Disciplinary Tribunal to the employment by the practitioner or incorporated firm of a person who—
              1. is under suspension from practice as a barrister or as a barrister and solicitor or as a conveyancing practitioner; or
                1. has had his or her name struck off the roll otherwise than at his or her own request; or
                  1. has had his or her registration as a conveyancing practitioner cancelled by an order made under this Act; or
                    1. is disqualified, by an order made under section 242(1)(h), from employment in connection with a practitioner's or incorporated firm's practice:
                    2. to make rules, not inconsistent with this Act, in respect of the making, hearing, and determination of applications, inquiries, appeals, and other proceedings before the Disciplinary Tribunal:
                      1. to perform such other functions as are conferred on it by this Act or any other enactment.

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