Photo / 123rfA lawyer has been suspended from the profession for 12 months for a secret six-day relationship with a prisoner. Wilson was employed as a barrister and met with the prisoner to discuss the possibility of an appeal. The employer told Wilson to advise the prisoner they could no longer help him. They also discussed a plan to pretend to Wilson's employer that a fellow prisoner needed to see a lawyer in person, creating an opportunity for her to visit the prison again. Prison authorities provided reports of these conversations to Wilson's employer, and she was suspended and then dismissed for serious misconduct.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 10, 2021 17:00 UTC