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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1992
PROCEEDINGS
OTHER
PROCEEDINGS RENDERED
THE
LASTLY, WHERE
UNNECESSARY,
NOT BUT AGAIN AN ACQUITTAL WAS THIS MIGHT ARISE WHERE A DEFENDANT WAS DUE TO BE EXTRADITED SERIOUS CHARGES.
LACK OF
CURRENT WARRANTED.
ON MORE
STATUTORY OR HIGHER
THE REVIEW ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE CURRENT PROVISIONS TO ENABLE A CASE TO BE TRANSFERRED TO A LOWER COURT AFTER THE EMERGENCE OF NEW EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT THE OFFENCE WAS MORE OR LESS SERIOUS THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT.
THE RESULTED IN
WHERE THIS
BECOMING SCHEDULED COURT INAPPROPRIATE FOR THE PROCEEDINGS, THE USE OF A NOLLE PROSEQUI WAS THE ONLY METHOD BY WHICH THE PROCEEDINGS MIGHT BE TERMINATED IN ONE AND RECOMMENCED IN ANOTHER MORE APPROPRIATE COURT.
COURT
TOOL FOR MR MATHEWS SAID THE NOLLE PROSEQUI WAS NOT AN IDEAL
THE BILL WOULD RESOLVING AN ESSENTIALLY SIMPLE PROCEDURAL DIFFICULTY. ACCORDINGLY PUT IN PLACE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS TO ENABLE CHANGE OF TRIAL VENUE.
THE BAR ASSOCIATION AND LAW SOCIETY HAD SUPPORTED THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE BILL.
BEEN CONSULTED AND
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
BILL TO MODERNISE DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES FOR LAWYERS
* * *
THE
THE
WOULD LEGAL AND
1992 PRACTITIONERS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL LEGAL
IN MODERNISE
THE AND
PROCEDURES LAID DOWN STREAMLINE
FOR PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE
THE DISCIPLINE OF SOLICITORS
MATHEWS, TOLD THE BARRISTERS, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON JEREMY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY.
SAID THE
MATHEWS THE MOVING
SECOND READING OF THE BILL, MR PRESENT PROCEDURES WERE COMPLEX, CUMBERSOME AND TIME-CONSUMING.
OF THE BILL ON THE NEW PROCEDURES FOR SOLICITORS, CLAUSE 4 WOULD PERMIT THE LAW SOCIETY COUNCIL TO REQUIRE A SOLICITOR OR HIS HER FIRM TO PRODUCE FILES AND DOCUMENTS FOR INSPECTION.
IF
OR
UNFIT TO BE
DISCIPLINARY PRACTICE UNTIL THE
ΤΟ
THE COUNCIL CONSIDERED THE SOLICITOR PRACTISE, IT COULD REFER THE MATTER TO THE SOLICITORS TRIBUNAL PANEL, AND SUSPEND THE SOLICITOR FROM PANEL HAD DEALT WITH THE MATTER.
ΤΟ ACT
11 SAID MR
"THIS IS A USEFUL, PREVENTATIVE POWER FOR THE COUNCIL SWIFTLY IN APPROPRIATE CASES IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC, MATHEWS.
AT PRESENT, FOR SOLICITORS, TRAINEE SOLICITORS AND EMPLOYEES OF SOLICITORS WAS SOLICITORS, A DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE PANEL OF SENIOR APPOINTED BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
/THE PANEL