{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-tribunal-appeals-and-amendment-rules-2011/rule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2346",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals and Amendment) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-tribunal-appeals-and-amendment-rules-2011",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the 1974 Act” means the Solicitors Act 1974;\n“the 2007 Act” means the Legal Services Act 2007;\n“the 2019 rules” means the Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019;\n“appeal” means a Schedule 2 appeal , a section 44E appeal or a licensing appeal;\n“appellant” means—\n(a)a person who makes an appeal to the Tribunal; or\n(b)a person added or substituted as an appellant under rule 13(1);\n“the Board” means the Legal Services Board;\n“clerk” has the same meaning as in the 2019 rules;\na “licensing appeal” means an appeal of the type mentioned in rule 1(2)(c);\n“Panel” means a panel appointed under rule 3 for the hearing of an appeal or any matter connected with an appeal;\n“party” means the appellant or the respondent;\n“practice direction” means a practice direction made under rule 10;\n“the President” means the President of the Tribunal, appointed under rule 3 of the 2007 rules;\n“respondent” means—\n(a)the person who made the decision in respect of which an appeal is made; or\n(b)a person added or substituted as a respondent under rule 13(1);\na “Schedule 2 appeal” means an appeal of the type mentioned in rule 1(2)(a);\na “section 44E appeal” means an appeal of the type mentioned in rule 1(2)(b);\n“the Society” means the Law Society and includes any duly constituted committee of the Law Society or any body or person exercising delegated powers of the Law Society;\n“the Society’s licensing rules” means licensing rules made by the Society under section 83 of the 2007 Act (licensing rules);\n“solicitor members” and “lay members” have the same meanings as in section 46 of the 1974 Act;\na “Stay” means a prohibition on the respondent implementing the decision in respect of which an appeal is made;\n“the Tribunal” means the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and where a Panel has been appointed for the hearing of an appeal or any matter connected with it, includes a Panel.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 2 substituted (25.11.2019) by The Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1185), rules 1, 49(a)(i) (with rule 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in substituted (23.12.2011) by The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals) (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/3070), rules 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 2 substituted (25.11.2019) by The Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019 (S.I. 2019/1185), rules 1, 49(a)(ii) (with rule 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 2 inserted (23.12.2011) by The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals) (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/3070), rules 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 2 inserted (23.12.2011) by The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals) (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/3070), rules 1, 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 2 inserted (23.12.2011) by The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals) (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/3070), rules 1, 4(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in force at 1.10.2011, see rule 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2346/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:54:35.278032+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}