A disciplinary tribunal finding that a legal practitioner swore a knowingly false affidavit is neither obliged nor forbidden to draw inferences as to the practitioner's motive, and such a finding does not go beyond the scope of a charge that alleges only the swearing of a false affidavit. A practitioner's failure to give evidence in disciplinary proceedings, despite warnings, makes it virtually impossible to succeed on appeal.
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