Rule 22 LPDC Rules 2020

Rule 22 of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) Rules 2020 is about Finding and direction if found guilty. It provides as follows:

If, after the hearing, the Disciplinary Committee finds that the allegation of infamous conduct in a professional respect has been proved, the Disciplinary Committee may, if it thinks fit, give direction-

(a) ordering the Registrar to strike the name of the legal practitioner off the roll; or

(b) suspending the legal practitioner from practice by ordering him not to engage in practice as a legal practitioner for such period as may be specified in the direction; or

(c) where appropriate, requiring the refund of funds that may have come into his hands in the course of the transaction subject matter of the Application or the handing over of documents or any other thing as the circumstances of the matter may require; or

(d) admonishing the legal practitioner;

Provided that in its discretion the Disciplinary Committee may direct that the legal practitioner should be subjected to more than one of the orders at the same time.