Western Australian Numbered Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2008 (NO. 21 OF 2008) - SECT 435

435 .         Review of Complaints Committee decision

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), a person aggrieved by —

            (a)         a decision of the Complaints Committee to dismiss a complaint; or

            (b)         a decision made by the Complaints Committee under section 426,

                may apply to the State Administrative Tribunal for a review of the decision.

        (2)         If the Complaints Committee, in its reasons for its decision, specifically finds the complaint —

            (a)         to be trivial, unreasonable, vexatious or frivolous; or

            (b)         in the case of a complaint purporting to be made under section 410(1)(e), to be a matter in which the complainant does not have, or did not have, a direct personal interest,

                the person aggrieved cannot apply to the State Administrative Tribunal for a review of the decision without the leave of the Tribunal.