Probyn Aiken
Allegation / charges
Struck off | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered June 04, 1991. View PDF DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL ORDER COMPLAINT NO. 217/90 In the matter of Joswyn Leo-Rhynie, Q.C., Chairman, General Legal Council and Probyn Aitken, Attorney-at-Law In …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
Probyn Aitken pleaded guilty and was convicted in the Resident Magistrate's Court for Kingston on 8 May 1990 of conspiring to defraud the Government of Jamaica by fraudulently utilizing funds held by the Jamaica Liaison Service and the West Indies Central Labour Organisation, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. The Disciplinary Committee found him guilty of misconduct in a professional respect under Canons 1(b) and III of the Canons of Professional Conduct Rules 1978 and unanimously ordered that his name be struck off the Roll.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Criminal conviction for conspiracy to defraud the Government of Jamaica
- Sentenced to nine months' imprisonment
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/probyn-aiken-complaint-no-217-of-1990/