Saturday September 12, 2009
Kayveas and wife lose appeal
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk M. Kayveas and his wife lost their appeal in the High Court after failing to overturn a decision by the Advocates and Solicitors’ Disciplinary Board, which found them guilty of misconduct.
In dismissing the appeal, High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) judge Justice Lau Bee Lan held that the Disciplinary Board was in the best position to judge the conduct of its members.
Therefore, Justice Lau said the court would not interfere in the board’s ruling.
The former deputy minister and Datin Blanche O’Leary had named the Bar Council as the sole respondent in their appeal filed on April 14, 2005.
The two, both lawyers, were ordered to pay a penalty of RM5,000 each on March 17, 2005, for breaching the terms of entrustment for money received as stakeholders pertaining to a RM2mil property sale and purchase transaction between two companies.
They have to pay within a month or are to be suspended from practice.
From The Star
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