72. Legal aid may be diminished, suspended or withdrawn at any stage of proceedings.
Withdrawal ordered during a trial or after judgment requires the party to refund to the corporation all the expenses and fees from which he had been dispensed.
The corporation shall pay to the advocate or notary, for the services he has rendered before being notified of the reduction, suspension or withdrawal of legal aid, the amounts to which he would have been entitled if the reduction, suspension or withdrawal had not been ordered.
1972, c. 14, s. 72; 1982, c. 36, s. 8.