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10.—(1) A supplier shall be entitled, for reasonable cause, to refuse to accept an application, or (having accepted an application) to refuse to provide civil legal services.
(2) A supplier may decline to disclose to an applicant or assisted party the reasons for refusing to accept instructions or to provide civil legal services under paragraph (1).
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the supplier shall give the Director such information about that refusal as the Director may require for the purpose of performing the Director's functions under the Order.
(4) Without prejudice to the right of suppliers to give up a case for reasonable cause, any supplier may give up a case if, in the opinion of the supplier, the assisted party has—
(a)required the case to be conducted unreasonably so as to incur an unjustifiable expense to the Department;
(b)required unreasonably that the case be continued; or
(c)wilfully failed to comply with any regulation as to the information to be furnished, or in furnishing such information has knowingly made a false statement or false representation.
(5) The supplier shall make a report to the Department of the circumstances in which the supplier exercises the right to give up a case under paragraph (4).
(6) Where the Director, upon receiving a report under paragraph (5), does not discharge or revoke the certificate, the Director shall require the assisted party to select another supplier to act and shall certify in writing that the first supplier has ceased to act for the assisted party.
(7) On any application made under rules of court for an order to the effect that a supplier has ceased to be the supplier for the assisted party, a certificate issued under paragraph (6) shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.
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