Sustained practice without a practising certificate, combined with repeated dishonest statements to courts, regulatory bodies, insurers and clients about entitlement to practise, constitutes professional misconduct warranting removal from the roll. The obligation of candour extends to the reasons volunteered by a practitioner for their inability to appear, not merely to the fact of inability. Possible psychological and financial pressures do not excuse sustained dishonest conduct.
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