A legal practitioner who deliberately misleads the court during disciplinary proceedings by falsely claiming to have forgotten a prior disciplinary finding will face removal from the roll, particularly where combined with a pattern of professional misconduct. The duty of candour requires disclosure of prior disciplinary findings even in mutual recognition admission applications, and the Briginshaw standard need not be expressly articulated in reasons provided the judge was aware of it.
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