The Office of Legal Ombudsman is established under the Legal Profession Act 1993.

The Legal Ombudsman is a statutory officer whose role is to protect the public interest by:

• monitoring the handling, by the Law Society of Tasmania, of complaints against legal practitioners
• reviewing the manner in which complaints have been investigated
• bringing to the complaints handling process a community perspective

For this reason, the Legal Ombudsman may not be a lawyer.

Judith Paxton
Legal Ombudsman