B v Canterbury District Law Society - [2002] 3 NZLR 113

Law practitioners — Disciplinary proceedings — Complaint by member of public — Whether fellow practitioner is member of public — Law Practitioners Act 1982, s 98.

Law practitioners — Disciplinary proceedings — Disclosure of particulars of complaint — Whether law society sufficiently informed practitioner — Law Practitioners Act 1982, s 101.

Law practitioners — Professional misconduct — Intervention rule — Whether breach of intervention rule amounted to professional misconduct — Whether reasonable to enforce intervention rule before decision on legal aid made — Rules of Professional Conduct for Barristers and Solicitors, R 11.03.

Administrative law — Judicial review — Whether law society acted reasonably or failed to take into account relevant consideration in laying charges.