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Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act (asp 5) which received Royal Assent on 19 January 2007

Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act (asp 5) which received Royal Assent on 19 January 2007

2007 asp 5

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Part 1 – the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

Section 18: Power of the Commission to recover certain expenses

42.This section enables the Commission to recover from practitioners costs reasonably incurred in obtaining documents and information from them, when these are not supplied on demand and the Commission requires to obtain a court order for their disclosure. Once the Commission receives the documents or information it must serve notice on the practitioner giving particulars of what has been caught by the order, and the practitioner then has 14 days in which he or she may seek to persuade the court that documents or information should be returned to him or her. If such an application is successful then costs will not be recoverable.

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