Reasons to be provided to complainant and practitioner
501 Reasons to be provided to complainant and practitioner
(1) If a complaint has been made about an Australian legal practitioner, the complainant and the practitioner are entitled to receive a statement of reasons from the Law Society in relation to:
its decision to dismiss the complaint; or
(b) its decision to start proceedings in the Disciplinary Tribunal in relation to the complaint; or
(c) its decision to omit, from the allegations in an application made to the Tribunal in relation to the complaint, matter that was originally part of the complaint.
(2) The Society must give a complainant an information notice for a decision to dismiss the complaint.
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