### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

9AB. Power of Tribunal Convenor to dispose of certain complaints
(1) The Tribunal Convenor of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Panel shall dispose of a matter submitted under section 9A(1A) if the person in respect of whom the submission is made—
(a) admits liability for the breach of a prescribed provision, practice direction or principle of professional conduct as alleged; and
(b) agrees to the matter being disposed of by the Tribunal Convenor under this section,
in the manner prescribed in rules made by the Council.
(2) The Tribunal Convenor shall dispose of a matter by making an order requiring the person concerned to pay, within the time specified in the order, the fixed penalty and the Council’s fixed investigation costs prescribed in rules made by the Council for a breach of the relevant prescribed provision, practice direction or principle of professional conduct.
(3) The fixed penalty shall be paid into the general revenue.
(4) The Tribunal Convenor shall sign an order made under this section and file a copy of the signed order with the Secretary General of the Society.
(5) Payment of an amount ordered to be paid by the Tribunal Convenor may be enforced as if it were an order issued out of the Court on the production of a copy of the order signed by the Tribunal Convenor and the rules of the Court, so far as applicable, apply to the order.
(6) An order filed with the Secretary General of the Society shall be available for inspection by any person affected during such hours as the Council may decide.
(Added 23 of 2002 s. 104)

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

9B. Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
(1) On receipt of a submission under section 8A(3) or 9A in respect of a person who is, or was at the relevant time, a solicitor, a trainee solicitor or an employee of a solicitor the Tribunal Convenor of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Panel shall, unless it is a matter that is to be disposed of by the Tribunal Convenor under section 9AB, appoint from the Panel 2 solicitors and one lay person to constitute a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to inquire into and investigate the matter. (Amended 60 of 1994 s. 14; 23 of 2002 s. 105)
(1A) On receipt of a submission under section 8A(3) or 9A in respect of a person who is, or was at the relevant time, a foreign lawyer or an employee of a foreign lawyer the Tribunal Convenor of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Panel shall, unless it is a matter that is to be disposed of by the Tribunal Convenor under section 9AB, appoint from the Panel 2 solicitors, one foreign lawyer and one lay person to constitute a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal to inquire into and investigate the matter. (Added 60 of 1994 s. 14. Amended 23 of 2002 s. 105)
(2) The Tribunal members shall elect as chairman one of its members who is a solicitor. 
(3) The Council may be represented at proceedings before the Tribunal. 
(4) The Tribunal shall sit in camera in the places and at the times it directs. 
(5) A member of the Tribunal who becomes a member of the Council may continue as a member of the Tribunal notwithstanding section 9(2). 
(Added 61 of 1992 s. 5)

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

11. Ancillary powers of a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
(1) For the purpose of conducting any such inquiry or investigation, a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal shall have all such powers as are vested in the Court or in any judge in the course of any action or suit in respect of the following matters— (Amended L.N. 162 of 1993)
(a) enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them upon oath or otherwise; 
(b) compelling the production of documents; 
(c) punishing persons guilty of contempt; 
(d) ordering an inspection of any property; 
(e) conducting the examination of witnesses; and 
(f) adjourning any meeting from time to time and from one place to another, 

and a summons under the hand of the Chairman of a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued in any action or suit for compelling the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents and any warrant of committal to prison issued for the purpose of enforcing any such powers as aforesaid shall be under the hand of such Chairman and shall not authorize the imprisonment of any offender for a period exceeding 1 month. 
(2) The Commissioner of Police and all police officers, officers of the court, gaolers and bailiffs of the court are required to give their utmost assistance to every Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and to every chairman thereof, in the enforcement of documents, warrants and orders issued in accordance with subsection (1) or otherwise. 
(3) Every member of a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal shall have the like protection and privileges, in relation to any action or suit brought against him for any act done or omitted to be done in the execution of his duties as such member, as is given by any law to a magistrate acting in the execution of his office. 
(4) All proceedings of a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and any order made in accordance with the provisions of section 10 shall be privileged. 
(Amended 61 of 1992 s. 6)

### Legal Practitioners Ordinance 《法律執業者條例》

13. Appeal and saving
(1) Subject to section 12(6), an appeal against any order made by a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal shall lie to the Court of Appeal and the provisions of Order 59 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4 sub. leg. A) shall apply to every such appeal save that the time for serving notice of motion of appeal shall be 21 days from the date of the decision and not 28 days as provided in the said Order. (Amended 61 of 1992 s. 6; 25 of 1998 s. 2; 10 of 2005 s. 57; 10 of 2008 s. 31)
(2) Subject to subsection (2A), in any appeal under subsection (1) the Society shall be the respondent. (Amended 42 of 2000 s. 5)
(2A) The Council may, with leave of the Court of Appeal, appeal an order of a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal under subsection (1), in which case the Society shall be the appellant and the person whose conduct was the subject of the inquiry by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal shall be the respondent. (Added 42 of 2000 s. 5)
(3) Nothing herein contained shall affect the jurisdiction of the Court under sections 3(2) and 45.
(4) The hearing of every appeal under this section shall be in open court unless, and to the extent to which, the Court of Appeal may otherwise direct.
(Amended 92 of 1975 s. 59; 61 of 1992 s. 9)