Checklist · Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation
Western Australia: Legal Practice Board complaint pathway and 30-day review
Checklist of the complaint path the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia describes, including the 30-day request for an internal review.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Western Australia
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for Western Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a Western Australian lawyer, or a person who has complained about one, needs the Board's published path recorded, from first contact through a final decision and any internal review.
Used for these tasks
- Build the complaint, investigation and deadline register for a practitioner
- Prepare the application for tribunal review of a licensing or disciplinary decision
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
The tool may record the stage and the 30-day date, and the lawyer decides the response and whether a review is requested.
AI may
- Record whether the Board has said it can help, cannot help, or is still assessing.
- Record which of the four courses the page says the Board may take when it can help.
- If a final decision has been given, enter 30 days from that decision as the internal-review request date.
- Record the Board's contacts from the page.
AI must not
- Do not draft the complaint or the lawyer's response.
- Do not describe the Commissioner's internal-review guideline. The page links a PDF and that PDF was not opened.
- Do not say the Board must investigate, or must reach agreement. The page says further investigation is the Board's decision.
- Do not prepare a tribunal application. The page does not describe one.
The lawyer checks
- Confirm the 30-day period against the current complaint-process page and the decision letter.
- Open the internal-review guideline before a review request is settled. It was not opened.
- Confirm the matter is one the Board says it can help with.
- Keep any negotiation separate from a disciplinary investigation.
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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