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The Rules of the Supreme Court-Order 106 [1988 Ed.
Title, service, etc. of notice of motion (O. 106, r. 12)
12. (1) The notice of the originating motion by which an appeal is brought must be entitled in the matter of a solicitor, or, as the case may be, a solicitor's clerk, without naming him, and in the matter of the Ordinance.
(2) Unless the Court otherwise orders, the persons to be served with such notice are every party to the proceedings before the disciplinary committee and the Society.
(3) Order 55, rule 4(2), shall apply in relation to the appeal as if for the period of 28 days therein specified there were substituted a period of 14 days.
(4) Order 55, rule 4(4), shall not apply and the said period of 14 days shall begin with the day on which the order appealed against was pronounced.
Society to produce certain documents (O. 106, r. 13)
13. (1) Within 7 days after being served with notice of the originating motion by which an appeal is brought the Society must lodge in the Registry 3 copies of each of the following documents-
(a) the order appealed against, prefaced by the statement of the disciplinary committee's findings required by section 12 of the Ordinance,
(b) any document lodged by a party with the disciplinary committee which is relevant to a matter in issue on the appeal, and
(c) the transcript of the shorthand note, or, as the case may be, the note taken by the chairman of the disciplinary committee, of the evidence in the proceedings before the committee.
(2) At the hearing of the appeal the Court shall direct by whom the costs incurred in complying with paragraph (1) are to be borne and may order them to be paid to the Society by one of the parties notwithstanding that the Society does not appear at the hearing.
Restriction on requiring security for costs (O. 106, r. 14)
14. No person other than an appellant who was the applicant in the proceedings before the disciplinary committee or, in the case of an application to that committee by a solicitor to procure his name to be removed from the roll, was an objector, shall be ordered to give security for the costs of an appeal.
Disciplinary committee's opinion may be required (O. 106, r. 15)
15. The Court may direct the disciplinary committee to furnish the Court with a written statement of their opinion on the case which
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