A legal practitioner convicted of 92 offences of stealing $291,422.75 from a charitable organisation of which he was a board member and sole signatory to a trust account will be struck off the roll, notwithstanding a previously unimpeachable record. Conduct involving a gross breach of trust by a lawyer of high standing in the community breaches the essence of the practice of the profession and permits of only one course of action.
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