LCDT Annual Report 2025 [pdf, 509 KB]
...penalty, and the prohibition of employment in respect of non- practitioner employees working in a legal or conveyancing practice. The Act has a more consumer-oriented approach than its predecessor, the Law Practitioners Act 1982, providing a “more responsive regulatory regime”. This responsive regulatory aspect is reinforced as part of s 231 “responsibilities of chairperson” where subsection (1)(a) refers to the “orderly and expeditious discharge of the functions of the D...