1 Dec 2014
SAMUELS v NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY [2014] NZHC 3025
- Citation
- SAMUELS v NEW ZEALAND LAW SOCIETY [2014] NZHC 3025
- Court
- High Court
Although the applicant initially failed to disclose a prior South African suspension and showed deficient candour in correspondence, material mitigating factors — earlier disclosure in 2008, reinstatement by the South African High Court in 2000 with conditions, subsequent unblemished practice, the traumatic personal context, credible denial of authorship of the offensive email and demonstrated present insight — when viewed in the round satisfy the Court that the applicant is a fit and proper person to be admitted, subject to taking the statutory oath and appropriate short‑term supervision.