Conduct

ILEX members are governed by a Code of Conduct. The Code includes the requirement for members to:

• Behave professionally
• Observe the same standards as solicitors
• Ensure clients receive the same support and quality of service as a solicitor provides.

A breach of the Code will be investigated on accordance with the ILEX complaint handling rules. 

Persons enrolling with ILEX also become bound by our Memorandum and Articles of Association.

They must:

• Support the aims and objects of ILEX
• Uphold the standards of professional practice prescribed in the Code of Conduct and Guides to Good Practice
• Comply with all ILEX rules and bye laws.

The Articles of Association provide for Disciplinary Bodies to be established which have power to consider and determine any complaint that a member is guilty of conduct which is unbefitting to the member or to ILEX.

The Disciplinary Bodies may decide that such a person should be excluded or suspended from membership or be fined, reprimanded or admonished and may order payments to be made by way of compensation or in respect of the costs of any investigation or disciplinary proceedings.

Further information on the ILEX Code of Conduct is provided in these pages. The full ILEX Code of Conduct may be downloaded from the link at the top of the page.