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Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

Complaints and discipline - Practice notes, procedural information, and publication of decisions

215A: Practice notes

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The Legal Complaints Review Officer can issue practice notes when they want to. You can use these notes to guide you if you are making a complaint or are the subject of a complaint. The practice notes must follow the rules of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 and any other related regulations.

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Part 7Complaints and discipline
Practice notes, procedural information, and publication of decisions

215APractice notes

  1. The Legal Complaints Review Officer may issue practice notes as he or she thinks fit.

  2. The practice notes must not be inconsistent with this Act or any regulations made under it and are for the guidance of Deputy Legal Complaints Review Officers, persons making complaints, persons who are the subject of complaints, and parties before the Legal Complaints Review Officer.

Notes
  • Section 215A: inserted, on , by section 124 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).