Background Part 3 - Complaints Section 78 – Faculty of Advocates: complaint of professional misconduct and publication of decision
196.This section inserts a new subsection into section 122 of the 2010 Act (Faculty of Advocates: particular rules). The new subsection provides that rules regulating the discipline of advocates (whether made by the Court of Session or on its behalf by the Faculty) must include rules which require the publication of decisions about complaints of professional misconduct against an advocate. It also provides that the rules must require certain matters to be included in the decisions.