A legal practitioner who engages in a conspiracy to defeat the course of justice and possesses illegal drugs demonstrates such a substantial disregard for the law as to be unfit for practice, warranting striking off rather than suspension, even where mitigating circumstances exist. Drug use alone does not necessarily result in striking off, but dishonesty striking at the heart of the justice system is treated with particular severity.
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