Guest v New Zealand Law Society [2009] NZLCDT 12 [pdf, 390 KB]
...oppression, and the creator of greater evils than those they are appointed to cure. There is therefore a serious responsibility on the Court – a duty to itself, to the rest of the profession, to its suitors, and to the whole of the community to be careful not to accredit any person as worthy of public confidence who cannot satisfactorily establish his right to that credential. It is not a question of what he has suffered in the past, it is a question of his worthiness and reli...