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dc.contributor.authorHaller, Linda
dc.contributor.authorGreen, Heather
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:08:03Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:08:03Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2009-11-16T21:36:17Z
dc.identifier.issn10334505
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/17550
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on an empirical investigation of disciplinary hearings involving lawyers in Queensland, Australia over the 75 year period 1930-2005. It looks at changes over time in relation to the types of charges and types of lawyers prosecuted, and orders made by tribunals. It examines statistical evidence of historical changes in the self-regulating legal profession's attitude to discipline, and in particular, evidence as to whether prosecuting bodies and tribunals were embracing a consumer protection focus emerging in legislation from the late 1980s, even though this represented a shift from discipline's traditional emphasis on questions of character. The article looks particularly at cases prosecuted by the Queensland Law Society - the body representing solicitors in that State - during the period 2000-2005, a period when the society was under serious threat of losing many of its regulatory powers. Although in 2004 the society was to go on and lose its powers to receive complaints from consumers of legal services and to prosecute discipline, the article concludes that, in its 'swan song' years, the society demonstrated a greater willingness to follow the legislature's intent and prosecute more vigorously, including in relation to quality of service matters.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBond Faculty of Law Review Committee
dc.publisher.placeGold Coast
dc.publisher.urihttps://blr.scholasticahq.com/issue/884
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom140
dc.relation.ispartofpageto167
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBond Law Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume19
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleSolicitors' swan song?: A statistical update on lawyer discipline in Queensland
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2007 Bond Law Review. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2007
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gro.griffith.authorGreen, Heather J.


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