VK Lingam fails again in bid to return to law practice

 

VK Lingam was accused of misconduct in relation to a controversial video tape over the appointment of judges in 2007.

KUALA LUMPUR: Former lawyer VK Lingam, who was implicated in the 2007 judge fixing scandal, has failed again in his bid to return to legal practice.

A three-member Court of Appeal bench chaired by Lee Swee Seng said the High Court was correct in maintaining the findings of the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board in 2015 to strike his name off the rolls.

The other judges on the panel were Lee Heng Cheong and Hashim Hamzah.

Swee Seng said the findings of the board to accept the evidence of Loh Gwo Burne and Loh Mui Fah that Lingam was on the telephone communicating to then chief judge of Malaya Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim were justified.

“There was no basis for this court to interfere,” he said.

The judge said the punishment was fair, considering the gravity of the misconduct that had brought disrepute to the legal profession.

“It indirectly also affected public confidence in the judiciary,” he said in delivering the verdict virtually.

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