LCRO 70/2020 FL v TP (8 October 2020) [pdf, 192 KB]
...Review Officers is managed to be referred to as the Legal Complaints Review Office, the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 does not provide for the creation of a Legal Complaints Review Office. [19] Review Officers are appointed by the Minister of Justice, following consultation with the New Zealand Law Society.6 [20] Review Officers are appointed under a ministerial warrant. [21] A stated purpose of the Act is to provide for a more responsive regulatory regime in relation to law...