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Review of Part 10 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 (NSW)
Reference received: March 2000
Report
Report 99: Complaints against lawyers: an interim report (PDF, 694.6 KB) [PDF, 699Kb], April 2001
- Tabled in parliament: 6 September 2001
- Legislative action: Legal Profession Amendment (National Competition Policy Review) Act 2002 Sch 1 [7], [40]; Legal Profession Regulation 2002 cl 45(1)(d), cl 52(b); Legal Profession Amendment Act 2004; Legal Profession Act 2004
Issue paper
Issue Paper 18: Complaints against lawyers: Review of Part 10, October 2000
Terms of reference
To review the procedures for dealing with complaints against legal practitioners under Part 10 of Legal Profession Act 1987, taking into account recent case law on the operation of Part 10 and the practical experience of the operation of the statutory provisions.
See Reference 79: Scrutiny of the Legal Profession for an earlier review of this area
See also the further review by the NSW Attorney General's Department: Legal Profession Act 1987: A Further Review of Complaints against Lawyers (November 2002)
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