When the Law Society Council exercises its power to reprimand under s 540(2)(b) of the Legal Profession Act 2004, the statutory precondition is satisfaction that there is a 'reasonable likelihood' the practitioner would be found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct — a predictive assessment describing a real and soundly based prospect, not a finding that the practitioner has in fact engaged in such conduct. On review, the ADT must address this same statutory question and cannot consider conduct outside the scope of the original complaint.
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