# The Licensed Conveyancers' Discipline and Appeals Committee (Procedure) Rules Approval Order 1987, Paragraph 16: Procedure upon postponement of judgment


(1) Where under any of the foregoing provisions of these Rules the judgment of the Committee in any case stands postponed, the following shall be the procedure.
(2) The Solicitor shall, not later than forty two days before the day fixed for the resumption of the proceedings, send to the respondent a notice, which shall:
(a) specify the day, time and place at which the proceedings are to be resumed and invite him to appear thereat;
(b) unless the Chairman otherwise directs, invite the respondent to furnish the Secretary with the names and addresses of persons to whom reference may be made confidentially or otherwise concerning his character and conduct; and
(c) invite the respondent to send to the Solicitor not less than twenty one days before the day fixed for the resumption of the proceedings a copy of any statement or statutory declaration, whether made by the respondent or not, relating to his conduct since the hearing of his case or setting out any material facts which have arisen since that hearing.
(3) A copy of the notice and of any statement or statutory declaration sent in accordance with the provisions of the last foregoing sub-paragraph shall be sent to the complainant, if any, if he is a party to the proceedings, and he may in turn, if he so desires, send to the Solicitor a statement or statutory declaration, whether made by himself or not, concerning any matter raised by the respondent.
(4) At the meeting at which the proceedings are resumed the Chairman shall first invite the Solicitor to recall, for the information of the Committee, the position in which the case stands and the Committee may then receive further oral or documentary evidence in relation to the conduct or the respondent since the hearing and evidence of any conviction recorded against the respondent which has not been the subject of a charge under these Rules, and shall hear any other party to the proceedings who desires to be heard.
(5) The Committee shall then consider and determine whether it shall be sufficient to conclude the case.
(6) If the Committee determine not to conclude the case, they shall next consider and determine whether they should further postpone their judgment on the charges on which their judgment was previously postponed; and if the Committee determine further to postpone judgment, the judgment of the Committee shall stand postponed until such future meeting of the Committee as they may determine; and the Chairman shall announce their determination in such terms as the Committee may approve.
(7) The provisions of this Rule shall apply to any case in which judgment is further postponed.
(8) If the Committee determine that judgment shall not be further postponed paragraph (5) of Rule 12 of these Rules shall apply.
(9) At any resumed proceedings any new charge alleged against the respondent in accordance with these Rules shall first be dealt with in accordance with such of Rules 9 and 11 and so much of Rule 12 as may be applicable and if the Committee determine neither to conclude the case nor to postpone judgment in respect of any such new charge, the Committee may apply paragraph (5) of Rule 12 simultaneously to the new charge and the charge in respect of which they had postponed judgment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/789/schedule/paragraph/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/licensed-conveyancers-discipline-and-appeals-committee-procedure-rules-approval-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-16
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