LCDT - 2015 annual report [pdf, 249 KB]
...rights in the criminal trials to be held, the disciplinary process must await the conclusion of the criminal process. That wait has, so far, been in excess of five years. We are acutely aware of the comments of the Court of Appeal in Orlov v. Auckland Lawyers Standards Committee and Or1 : “[107]……almost five years later it has still not been resolved. Such a situation is totally unsatisfactory and contrary to the statutory policy that complaints are to be dealt with expedi...