UK Statutory Instrument SI 2019/1185 United Kingdom

The Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019

Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Plus 4 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.art012 Method and form of application Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Submit disciplinary application using prescribed form with supporting documentsStatutory regulator
s.art014 Supplementary Statements Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • The Law Society must provide full supplementary hearing packsStatutory regulator
s.art019 Application for review of order relating to solicitors’ employees and consultants Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Law Society must respond to review application within 28 daysStatutory regulator
s.art027 Evidence generally and service and sending of Evidence and bundles Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Society must send hearing bundles to Tribunal 14 days before hearingStatutory regulator
47 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001 Citation and commencement
s.art002 Scope
s.art003 Interpretation
s.art004 The overriding objective
s.art005 Standard of proof
s.art006 Regulation of procedure and practice directions
s.art007 President and Vice Presidents
s.art008 The Clerk to the Tribunal and other clerks and staff
s.art009 Composition of panels
s.art010 Functions exercisable by a single solicitor member
s.art011 Application of Rules in Chapter 1
s.art013 Certification of case to answer
s.art015 Applications in respect of solicitors’ employees
s.art016 Adjournment of application pending Law Society investigation
s.art017 Applications for restoration and termination of indefinite suspension
s.art018 Application to vary or remove conditions on practice
s.art020 Standard Directions
s.art021 Case management hearings
s.art022 Procedural applications
s.art023 Adjournments
s.art024 Amendment or withdrawal of allegations
s.art025 Agreed Outcome Proposals
s.art026 Disclosure and discovery
s.art028 Written Evidence
s.art029 Civil Evidence Act notices
s.art030 Expert evidence
s.art031 Interpreters and Translators
s.art032 Previous findings of record
s.art033 Adverse inferences
s.art034 Publication of cause lists
s.art035 Public or private hearings
s.art036 Proceeding in absence
s.art037 Application for re-hearing
s.art038 Evidence and submissions during the hearing
s.art039 Recording of the hearing
s.art040 Decisions
s.art041 Sanction
s.art042 The Order
s.art043 Costs
s.art044 Sending and service of documents
s.art045 Deemed Service
s.art046 Substituted service by the applicant
s.art047 Calculating time
s.art048 Representatives
s.art049 Amendments to the 2011 Appeals Rules
s.art050 Revocation
s.art051 Transitional provisions

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