Professional Conduct Committee
The Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) is established by the Board of Trustees and is concerned with the professional conduct of Institute members and disciplinary matters.
It investigates, and if necessary, facilitates the discipline, suspension and/or expulsion of any member through an independent and impartial system of disciplinary proceedings.
Members of the PCC are appointed for a three year term and consists of seven members of the Institute, together with a least one, but no more than five, Lay-members. At least two of the Institute members shall be lawyers and one will have held judicial office. Lay-members have full voting rights.
Membership of the PCC is mutually exclusive from membership of any Peer Review Panel, Disciplinary Tribunal and/or Appeal Tribunal.
Note: The Chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) is not a member of the Board of Management as the PCC reports directly to the Board of Trustees.
References: Charter Article 5.1(6), Bye-Law 15, Schedule to Bye-Laws and Regulations (8).
Last Updated: 26 March 2009