NZLS v Gilbert [2012] NZLCDT 24 [pdf, 222 KB]
...of disciplinary proceedings and its ability to use s 126 Law Practitioners Act 1982 to require, at its own instigation, a person to give evidence. Counsel for Mr Gilbert submitted that the nature of disciplinary proceedings did not go as far as permitting the Tribunal to intervene in the way it had in attempting to enlarge the scope of the Committee’s evidence at the hearing. [30] He noted that the section relied on by the Tribunal to require Mr Hobbs to provide evidence was a...