'The hallmarks of tragedy': Sydney lawyer disqualified after drug conviction

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The Council of the Law Society of NSW sought to have Parente removed from the roll of Australian lawyers arguing he was not a fit and proper person.The court heard, Parente was a young man of considerable academic ability, a school dux and held in such high regard by his colleagues he was elected to professional boards, before he succumbed to addiction.

His slide into drugs was blamed on the breakdown of a relationship and the pressures of work which led to, “depression, experimentation with and then addiction to the drugs he had so despised, and finally to engaging in small scale dealing to sustain his habit,” the judge said. Although not every conviction that results in a prison sentence means a person is “incompatible with membership of the profession”, Parente’s conduct impacted the wider community and put his clients at risk, the court found.

Inject it into my veins. I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning

A lot of chutzpah on his part to challenge the decision to disqualify. How can convicted drug dealer be of good character? Especially as at the time, he was a criminal lawyer making submissions in these types of cases. Just another fuckwit with a sense of entitlement.

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