Paragraph 2

England and Wales

(1)

For the purposes of any proceedings before the Discipline and Appeals Committee under section 26—

(a)

the Committee may administer oaths; and

(b)

any party to the proceedings may sue out writs of subpoena ad testificandum and of subpoena duces tecum;

but no person shall be compelled under any such writ to produce any document which he could not be compelled to produce on the trial of an action.

(2)

Section 36 of the M1F1Senior Courts Act 1981(subpoena issued by High Court to run through United Kingdom) shall apply in relation to any such proceedings before the Committee as it applies in relation to causes or matters in the High Court.

(3)

Paragraph 1(5) applies for the purposes of this paragraph.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 4 para. 2 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)

Marginal citations

M1: 1981 c. 54.