[2025] NZLCDT 32 National Standards Committee 2 v Mulligan (1 July 2025) [pdf, 151 KB]
...established that the purpose of penalties imposed in professional disciplinary proceedings is not punitive. Rather, it reflects the purposes of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (LCA): the protection of 1 National Standards Committee 1 v Palmer [2023] NZLCDT 13. 2 Hart v Auckland Standards Committee 1 of New Zealand Law Society [2013] 3 NZLR 103 at [181]– [189]. 3 Daniels v Complaints Committee 2 of the Wellington District Law Society [2011] 3 NZLR 850 (HC). 3 the...