Legal Practitioners.
award to the Society such costs and expenses as the Society may have incurred by the employment of counsel, solicitors or otherwise, as the court shall consider reasonable under the circumstances and may order such costs to be paid by any solicitor or person who has been the subject of any complaint, inquiry or investigation or of any proceedings before the
court.
34. The court shall have power on reasonable cause being shown to remove from or strike off the roll or to suspend from practice any enrolled barrister who has been guilty of such misconduct as to make him unfit to practise, whereupon the registrar shall enter a note of the court order on the roll in connexion with the name of the barrister, and where the order so directs, shall remove, or strike off the
name.
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Power of court to strike off or suspend barrister.
Power of court to strike off or suspend barrister.
public.
35. The court shall have power on reasonable cause being shown to remove from or strike off the register kept under section 31 or to suspend from practice any registered notary notary public, whereupon the registrar shall enter a note of the court order on the register in connexion with the name of the notary public and, where the order so directs, shall remove or strike off the name.
36. (1) The Committee shall have power to inquire into and investigate the professional conduct of any solicitor
(a) on receiving a complaint or allegation against a
solicitor from any person;
(b) of its own motion;
Power of Committee to inquire into conduct of solicitor.
(c) on having any matter referred to it by the court under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 33.
(2) For the purpose of conducting any such inquiry or investigation the Committee shall have all the powers which are set out in section 3 of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, (Cap. 86), as though the same had been specifically conferred upon them in the manner required by the provisions of that Ordinance.
(3) Where in the course of any inquiry or investigation under the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) the Committee are of opinion that the facts and the available evidence in support of any complaint or allegation should be or become a matter for inquiry and determination
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award to the Society such costs and expenses as the Society may have incurred by the employment of counsel, solicitors or otherwise, as the court shall consider reasonable under the circumstances and may order such costs to be paid by any solicitor or person who has been the subject of any complaint. inquiry or investigation or of any proceedings before the
court.
34. The court shall have power on reasonable cause being shown to remove from or strike off the roll or to suspend from practice any enrolled barrister who has been guilty of such misconduct as to make him unfit to practise, whereupon the registrar shall enter a note of the court order on the roll in connexion with the name of the barrister, and where the order so directs, shall remove, or strike off the
name.
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Power of strike off or barrister.
court to
suspend
Power of strike off or
court to
suspend
public.
35. The court shall have power on reasonable cause being shown to remove from or strike off the register kept under section 31 or to suspend from practice any registered notary notary public, whereupon the registrar shall enter a note of the court order on the register in connexion with the name of the notary public and, where the order so directs, shall remove or strike off the name.
36. (1) The Committee shall have power to inquire into and investigate the professional conduct of any solicitor
(a) on receiving a complaint or allegation against a
solicitor from any person;
(b) of its own motion;
Power of to inquire of solicitor.
Committee
into conduct
(c) on having any matter referred to it by the court under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 33. (2) For the purpose of conducting any such inquiry or investigation the Committee shall have all the powers which are set out in section 3 of the Commissioners Powers Ordin- (Cap. 86.) ance, as though the same had been specifically conferred upon them in the manner required by the provisions of that Ordinance.
(3) Where in the course of any inquiry or investigation under the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) the Committee are of opinion that the facts and the avail- able evidence in support of any complaint or allegation should be or become a matter for inquiry and determination
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