The Court of Appeal yesterday handed out the reasons for its decision in the disbarring of former attorney Vonda Minerva Pile.
Last June, Chief Justice The Most Honourable Leslie Haynes, along with Justices of Appeal Francis Belle and Margaret Reifer, accepted the recommendation from the Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Bar Association that Pile’s name be struck off the list of attorneys who are able to practise law in Barbados. Her disbarment was published in the Official Gazette.
The decision, handed out to attorneys from the Bar Association, as well as its Disciplinary Committee, stated that having considered submissions, “and bearing in mind our duty to the profession and to the public, we are of the view that the misconduct complained of is serious and the sanction that must be imposed has to reflect the very serious nature of this matter”.
The Court of Appeal had blocked the disgraced attorney from touching any of the funds in her clients’ accounts and ordered the Registrar to summons her, along with the secretary of the Bar Association, to a meeting, within seven days of the decision, so as to make arrangements for the production of all the civil, criminal and probate matters in which she had appeared.
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