Peters’ lawyer fined $10,000

The Law Society reported:

Clifton Killip Lyon has been censured and fined $10,000 by a lawyers standards committee, following two findings of unsatisfactory conduct. …

However, it found that Mr Lyon had permitted S to draft court documents (which falls within the definition of regulated services), knowing S had been suspended and considered that to be unsatisfactory.

The committee also concluded that a response from Mr Lyon to the committee’s enquiries had been “unforthcoming in the extreme” and “at best, misleading” and that that was unsatisfactory. When asked what role S played in drafting court documents, Mr Lyon wrote “I do not know who drafted the court documents”, in circumstances where all indications were that S had drafted them.

So the Law Society is basically saying Lyon misled them and allowed a suspended lawyer to work for him.

Lyon by coincidence is the lawyer that has put together the conspiracy theory for Winston’s lawsuit.