Legal Profession - disciplinary proceedings - conduct amounting to 20
reasonable cause for striking practitioner off roll - obtaining of fees
from unsophisticated client on false pretence is reasonable cause: A
barrister who agrees to hold a brief on behalf of another for a specified
fee and then, on the pretence that the case has been transferred entirely
to him, demands and receives from an ignorant and unsophisticated client
a further fee out of all proportion to the importance of the case, and 25
who, on the same pretence, persuades the client to pay him an additional
fee, supposedly for conducting an appeal when in fact he has no work to
do in respect of the appeal since he is not acting in it, by his conduct
gives the Chief Justice reasonable cause to exercise the power conferred
upon him the Supreme Court Ordinance (cap. 205), s.57 to order the
barrister's name to be struck off the roll of the court.