Legal Profession Act 2007

The chairperson must make arrangements about constituting the committee for hearing and deciding discipline applications.

For hearing and deciding a discipline application made to the committee, the committee is constituted by—

the chairperson; and

a member of the committee who is a local legal practitioner chosen by the chairperson; and

a lay member of the committee chosen by the chairperson.

In choosing a local legal practitioner as mentioned in subsection (2), the chairperson must choose a person who is—

if the discipline application is about the conduct of a person who, at the time of performing the acts or omitting to do the acts constituting the conduct complained of, was a barrister or, in the opinion of the chairperson, was engaged in legal practice in the manner of a barrister—a barrister; or

otherwise—a solicitor.

The chairperson is to preside at the hearing of a matter referred to the committee.

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