Locally-registered foreign lawyer – show cause event
200 Locally-registered foreign lawyer – show cause event
This section applies to a show cause event that happens in relation to a locally-registered foreign lawyer.
The locally-registered foreign lawyer must provide to the Law
Society both of the following:
within 7 days after the happening of the event – notice, in the approved form, that the event happened;
within 28 days after the happening of the event – a written statement explaining why, despite the show cause event, the person considers himself or herself to be a fit and proper person to be a locally-registered foreign lawyer.
If a written statement is provided after the 28 days mentioned in subsection (2)(b), the Society may accept the statement and take it into consideration.
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