Lawyer who smuggled notes down trousers for ethics test struck off roll

By Michael Koziol
June 8 2014 - 3:00am
Struck off: a lawyer has been banned after cheating in an ethics test. Photo: Rob Homer
Struck off: a lawyer has been banned after cheating in an ethics test. Photo: Rob Homer

A man has been struck from the roll of lawyers after cheating in an ethics exam. Hendrick Jan van Es was found to be ''not a fit and proper person'' to remain on the Supreme Court's local roll of lawyers because he had taken forbidden notes, tucked down his trousers, into an ''ethics for barristers'' examination.

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