Discipline
The Legal Services Commission is the sole body authorised under the Legal Profession Act 2007 (the Act) to initiate and prosecute disciplinary proceedings against solicitors, barristers and law practice employees.
The Act establishes two disciplinary bodies - the Legal Practice Tribunal and the Legal Practice Committee. It requires us to publish on our website a discipline register of all disciplinary action taken under the Act (s.472) and defines 'disciplinary action' to mean an order of a court or a disciplinary body that finds a practitioner guilty of professional misconduct (s.471). It is important that you read the explanatory notes before you access the discipline register for the first time.
Some of our counterpart regulators in the other states and territories also keep discipline registers on their websites and we have included links to those registers.
We have included links to every published decision of the courts and the disciplinary bodies and selected other decisions of the courts that are relevant to the professional obligations of Australian legal practitioners under a separate heading, Disciplinary and other relevant regulatory decisions.
On this page:
- the Queensland disciplinary bodies
- the Legal Practice Tribunal
- the Legal Practice Committee
- the Queensland discipline register
- the Queensland discipline register including explanatory notes and a search facility
- the Queensland discipline register
- the interstate discipline registers
- the complete disciplinary and other regulatory decisions
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