Convener: Joseph G Boyd
Secretaries:
- Wendy Henderson ([email protected])
- Ian Ritchie ([email protected])
Aims & functions of the committee
The aims and functions of the Sub Committee work are to:
- to determine conduct complaints against Scottish solicitors, executry and conveyancing practitioners
- to decide if a conduct complaint may amount to professional misconduct and requires to be referred to the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal in terms of Section 51 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980
- to decide if a conduct complaint against a Scottish solicitor amounts to unsatisfactory professional conduct in terms of Section 42ZA of the 1980 Act, and in the event that a determination is made to impose appropriate sanctions
- to determine whether no action should be taken in relation to a conduct complaints against, Scottish solicitors, executry and conveyancing practitioners
- to decide if a conduct complaint against an executry and/or conveyancing practitioner amounts to unsatisfactory professional conduct in terms of Section 20 ZB of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)(Scotland) Act 1990.
Members
Joseph G Boyd (Convener)
Morris Anderson
William Braes*
Alistair Christie*
Jeremy Clarke*
Ralph Coleman*
Peter Cross*
Carolyn MacLeod
Alistair Murdoch
Christine Reid*
Forbes Watson
Ian Ritchie and Wendy Henderson (Secretaries)
