Conduct occurring in extreme personal circumstances remote from legal practice, even if involving lies to police and solicitors, does not necessarily establish present unfitness to remain on the roll where the conduct was against interest, the product of acute stress, not persisted in under oath, and followed by years of blameless life. The question whether applicants for admission must disclose charges of which they have been acquitted was left open, though the Court indicated that disclosure is the prudent course.
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