1964_LEGAL_PRACTITIONERS_ORDINANCE — Page 15

CAP. 159]

Legal Practitioners

[1989 Ed.

(e) payment by any party of costs or of such sum as the Disciplinary Committee may consider a reasonable contribution towards costs;

(f) cancellation or suspension of the articles of any articled clerk to whom the complaint or investigation relates; and

(g) prohibition of employment by any solicitor of any solicitor's employee or articled clerk, to whom the complaint or investigation relates, for such period as the Disciplinary Committee may decide.

(3) Every order made under subsection (2) shall be filed with the secretary of the Society and shall be available for inspection by any solicitor during such hours as the Council may prescribe. (Amended 52 of 1980 s. 2)

(4) A Disciplinary Committee appointed by the Council shall hear and determine every application by a solicitor to procure the removal from the roll of solicitors of his own name. (Amended 52 of 1980 s. 2)

11. Ancillary powers of a Disciplinary Committee

(1) For the purpose of conducting any such inquiry or investigation, a Disciplinary Committee shall have all such powers as are vested in the Court or in any judge in the course of any action or suit in respect of the following matters-

(a) enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them upon oath or otherwise;

(b) compelling the production of documents;

(c) punishing persons guilty of contempt;

(d) ordering an inspection of any property;

(e) conducting the examination of witnesses; and

(f) adjourning any meeting from time to time and from one place to another,

and a summons under the hand of the Chairman of a Disciplinary Committee may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued in any action or suit for compelling the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents and any warrant of committal to prison issued for the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be under the hand of such Chairman and shall not authorize the imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding 1 month.

(2) The Commissioner of Police and all police officers, officers of the court, gaolers and bailiffs of the court are required to give their utmost assistance to every Disciplinary Committee and to every chairman thereof, in the enforcement of documents, warrants and orders issued in accordance with subsection (1) or otherwise.

Page 15

Page 16