The Court of Three Judges recently backed the Law Society’s findings on a lawyer’s gross misconduct and ordered a three-year suspension from practice.
Counsels Navasiwayam Kanasan Palaniandy and Abdul Muqtadir Haji Suhaime for the Law Society stated that Lim Chin Wah was found to have not recorded BND20,000 in payments from clients in July 2019 while also commissioning an unqualified person to procure legal work.
The Court of Three Judges agreed with the Law Society disciplinary committee’s findings that there were inconsistencies in Lim’s evidence in regards to the payment. The use of the unqualified person to procure legal work was never credibly explained and was a blatant breach of rules, said the court.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin