Suva lawyer Jerry Dinati has pleaded guilty to professional misconduct before Independent Legal Services Commissioner Justice Daniel Goundar this morning.<\/p>\n
Dinati failed to respond to a notice issued by the Chief Registrar on 14th November last year regarding a complaint filed by Donald Brian Andrew Kelemeti on 19th July last year.<\/p>\n
Dinati also failed to respond to a reminder notice sent on 8th December last year.<\/p>\n
The failure to respond is considered professional misconduct under the Legal Practitioners Act 2009.<\/p>\n
Dinati was not present in court when the hearing began before Justice Goundar this morning.<\/p>\n
However, Justice Goundar noted when Dinati had entered the courtroom and had called him to the bench.<\/p>\n
While responding to questions from Justice Goundar, Dinati said he was involved in a trial before Magistrate Sufia Hamza and came to the hearing as soon as he was excused.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to the allegation, stating that he did not want to waste the court\u2019s and Justice Goundar\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
Justice Goundar told Dinati that he needs to take the matter seriously as it is his bread and butter.<\/p>\n
He told the lawyer that he had worked hard to get where he is and asked whether he wanted to just give it all away.<\/p>\n
Dinati has been given until 26th June to file his mitigation, while counsel representing the Chief Registrar, Jasvin Sharma, has until 6th July to respond.<\/p>\n
Justice Goundar warned Dinati that as a matter of courtesy, to comply with his directive, adding that if Dinati was not interested, the matter would still proceed.<\/p>\n
Dinati also represents Imran Khan, also known as King Khan, in his contravention of restraining orders case.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The matter has been adjourned to 10th July for either sanctioning or a mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suva lawyer Jerry Dinati has pleaded guilty to professional misconduct before Independent Legal Services Commissioner Justice Daniel Goundar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1349,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-448070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-court","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}