The Weekly Law Reports
[2015] 1 WLR 4064
Chancery Division
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In re
Law Society
[2015] EWHC 166 (Ch)
2014 Nov 27;
2015 Feb 9
Iain Purvis QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Solicitor— Practice— Intervention by Law Society— Law Society in possession of large quantity of redundant documents obtained from intervened firms— Whether Society having power without court order to destroy documents no longer necessary for discharge of intervention powers— Factors relevant to exercise of court’s power to order mass destruction of documents— Whether order to be granted—
Solicitors Act 1974 (c 47) (as amended by Legal Services Act 2007 (c 29), s 177, Sch 16, para 77(9)(j)), Sch 1, paras 9(10), 16
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