48Dealing with regulatory authority (ASCR 43)

48 Dealing with regulatory authority (ASCR 43)

(1)  Subject only to his or her duty to the client, a solicitor must be open and frank in his or her dealings with a regulatory authority.

(2)  A solicitor must respond within a reasonable time and in any event within 14 days (or such extended time as the regulatory authority may allow) to any requirement of the regulatory authority for comments, or information, in relation to the solicitor’s conduct or professional behaviour, in the course of the regulatory authority investigating conduct which may be unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct, and in doing so the solicitor must furnish in writing a full and accurate account of his or her conduct in relation to the matter.

These rules were made by the Law Society of Tasmania at a meeting held on 7 September 2020.

The common seal of the Law Society of Tasmania was affixed on 7 September 2020, in the presence of –

TREVOR JOSEPH MCKENNA

Vice President

AMANDA THOMPSON

Member

LUKE RHEINBERGER

Member

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 16 September 2020

These rules are administered in the Department of Justice.