Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal: Standards
(asked on 3rd April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on the level of public confidence in the legal sector of the continued use by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal of the criminal standard of proof.
This question was answered on 9th April 2019
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) is an independent Tribunal which has a statutory right to make its own rules, under section 46 of the Solicitors Act 1974.Following a consultation in 2018, the SDT has now confirmed it intends to make new rules, including a change to using the civil standard of proof in all determinations.