Harold v Legal Complaints Review Officer - [2012] 2 NZLR 559

Judicial review — Unreasonableness — Whether purported convention carried weight — Whether profession’s rules to be disregarded — Whether Court guidelines applied — Whether error of law — Whether review decisions valid — Whether rehearing to be ordered — New Zealand Law Society Conduct and Client Care Rules 2008, r 13.

Law practitioners — Disciplinary proceedings — Professional misconduct — Whether conduct unsatisfactory — Whether practitioner’s action prohibited — Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006, ss 12 and 152.