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COLIN ROBERT McKERLIE

JurisdictionAustralia — Western Australia
BodyLegal Practice Board of Western Australia (LPBWA)
Professionlawyer — Level 1, 538 Hay Street PERTH WA 6000
Case numberLegal Practitioners Complaints Committee v McKerlie [2007] WASC 119
Date21 May 2007
HearingSupreme Court of WA
OutcomeStruck Off the Roll of Practitioners

Allegation / charges

Struck Off the Roll of Practitioners

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundNo

The Legal Practitioners Complaints Committee sought removal of Colin Robert McKerlie from the Roll based on his criminal convictions for unlawful and indecent assault and two counts of sexual penetration without consent, for which he was sentenced to a total of 4 years and 8 months imprisonment. The Full Bench found the circumstances demonstrated premeditation, a tendency to vice, lack of probity, and lack of remorse, rendering him not a fit and proper person to remain a legal practitioner. He was struck off the Roll. A separate reference concerning unprofessional conduct was stood over as unnecessary to determine.

Duties found breached:

Aggravating factors:

  • Premeditation
  • Tendency to vice and lack of probity
  • Lack of remorse or insight shown during trial
  • Running a defence described as a farrago of lies, causing further harm to the victim

Duties engaged

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Documents

Source: https://www.lpbwa.org.au/getmedia/e88f5464-6f25-45e2-b150-f9c594dd81c1/register_of_disciplinary_action.pdf