Where a practitioner has been found unfit to practise many years after the offending conduct, with no evidence suggesting likelihood of becoming fit, the probability of permanent unfitness is established and removal from the Roll should follow. The purposes of striking off extend beyond protecting the public from the individual practitioner to include preserving the profession's standing and maintaining the Roll as the Court's endorsement of fitness. A finding of professional misconduct under s 419(1)(b) requires assessment of the conduct's seriousness at the time it occurred, not a present-tense fitness assessment.
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