Willjude Vimalraj S/O Raymond Suras

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

The Law Society applied to strike off the respondent, an advocate and solicitor and former police Investigating Officer, who had been convicted of nine forgery charges and one charge of giving false evidence in a judicial proceeding. He had forged/backdated witness statements while an IO (before admission), and falsely declared in his Bar admission affidavit that he was not subject to any pending criminal investigation despite knowing of ongoing IAO investigations. He was sentenced to 25 months' imprisonment. The Court of Three Judges found dishonesty was integral to his offences and that striking off is the presumptive sanction with no exceptional circumstances present. The date of the offences (pre-admission) was irrelevant to s 83(2)(a), which turns on the date of conviction. The respondent was struck off and ordered to pay $6,000 costs plus $1,110.75 disbursements.

Duties found breached:

• Proper basis for allegations
• No taking unfair advantage
• Not mislead third parties or opponents

Aggravating factors:

• Dishonesty integral to the offences
• Breach of public trust as a Police Investigating Officer through forgery of witness statements
• Fraudulently secured admission to the Bar via false admission affidavit
• Serious harm to the administration of justice
• 29 additional forgery charges taken into consideration

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=7110.75"]