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Publication of outcome of disciplinary inquiry.
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17.—The Act of 1994 is hereby amended in section 23—
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(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):
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“(1) Where, on the completion of an inquiry by the Disciplinary Tribunal held under section 7(3) of the Act of 1960, the Disciplinary Tribunal have—
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(a) made an order under section 7(9),
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(b) served on the Society a copy of the order pursuant to section 7(10), and
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(c) sent to the Society a copy of their report pursuant to section 7(5),
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of that Act, then, subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Society may arrange to publish the order or notice of the making of the order and its effect, together with a summary of the report, in such a manner as the Society thinks fit.”,
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(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):
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“(2) Where, on the completion of an inquiry by the Disciplinary Tribunal held under section 7(3) of the Act of 1960, the Disciplinary Tribunal have made an order under section 7(9) of that Act, the order, or notice of the making of the order and its effect, or any part of the report of the Disciplinary Tribunal or other detail of the inquiry, shall not be published by the Society until a period of at least 21 days beginning on the date of the service of a copy of the order or of the report, whichever date is the later, shall have elapsed or until any application made under subsection (11) or (12) of section 7 of the Act of 1960 has been determined by the High Court, and thereafter the notice of the making of the order shall not be published if the Court rescinds the order of the Disciplinary Tribunal or, in the case of an application made under the said subsection (12), the Court orders that one or more of the aforementioned documents shall not be published.”,
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and
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(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3):
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“(4) References in subsections (1) and (2) of this section to provisions of section 7 of the Act of 1960 are to those provisions as substituted by this Act and, where appropriate, by the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 2002.”.
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