The Civil Legal Services (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Power to require information

12.—(1) The Director may require a supplier to furnish to any person authorised by the Director to request it, such information as the Director may from time to time require for the purpose of discharging the Director’s functions under the Order.

(2) The relationship between or rights of the supplier and the individual, or any privilege arising out of such relationship, does not preclude the supplier from disclosing information or documentation, where—

(a) it is required in accordance with paragraph (1); and

(b) it relates to any service provided to an individual who is or was in receipt of services funded by the Department.

(3) For the purpose of providing information in order to enable the Director to discharge any functions imposed or conferred on the Director by or under Articles 12A to 20A of the Order, any party may disclose to any person authorised by the Director to receive them, communications in relation to the proceedings concerned sent to or by the supplier, whether or not they are expressed to be “without prejudice”.

(4) A supplier who has acted or is acting for an assisted party shall, as soon as practicable, make a report to the Director in circumstances in which—

(a) the assisted party has died;

(b) the assisted party has been adjudicated bankrupt or an order has been made in relation to the assisted party under Article 226 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(1); or

(c) the assisted party has been declared by the Court of Judicature to be a vexatious litigant.

(1)

S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)