Part 7Complaints and discipline
Procedure
237Representation before Disciplinary Tribunal
Every person who makes an application to the Disciplinary Tribunal and every practitioner or other person to whom an application to the Disciplinary Tribunal relates is entitled to appear and be heard at the hearing of that application and to be represented by counsel or otherwise.
A charge made by a Standards Committee against a practitioner or any other person is, at the hearing, to be prosecuted by that Standards Committee, which, for that purpose, may be represented by counsel or otherwise.
A charge made by the Legal Complaints Review Officer against a practitioner or any other person is, at the hearing, to be prosecuted by the Legal Complaints Review Officer, who, for that purpose, may be represented by counsel or otherwise.
The practitioner or other person against whom a charge is made by a Standards Committee or the Legal Complaints Review Officer is entitled to appear and be heard at the hearing of that charge and to be represented by counsel or otherwise.
If any party to proceedings before the Disciplinary Tribunal is represented by counsel, any other party to those proceedings may be represented by counsel.