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The provisons and policies which relate to the discretion of the law society standards committee

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From: Grace Haden

Dear Ministry of Justice,

section 138 Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 provides for discretion of a standards committee to take no further action

please provide the policies relied on for the application and the limitation of that discretion

The Committee exercise its discretion to take no further action when complaints relate to matters which are, will be or have been, before the Court. this effectively means that a lawyers conduct is condoned and there is no accountbility for bad conduct.

it therefore appears that all a lawyer has to do to conceal crime or digressions is to take a matter to court and they are no longer under scrutiny of the rules of conduct .

Please provide any discussion papers and policies which consider this, effetively it provides for civil proceedigns to conceal criminal offending .. e,g, claiming defamtion when a person has identified a crime

Yours faithfully,

Grace Haden

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