WHERE IS THE JUSTICE ACCORDED TO ME IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW?

From: Eddie Hwang [mailto:eddieh@iinet.net.au] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 9:31 AM To: eddieh@iinet.net.au Subject: Lloyd Rayney to give evidence in fight to save legal career August 12, 2015 1:57pm - KATE CAMPBELLPerthNow Lloyd Rayney’s appeal against the Legal Practice Board’s decision to cancel his certificate to practise law is set to be heard in October. Picture: File image FORMER prominent Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is likely to give evidence at a hearing later this year as he fights to save his legal career. It will be the first time Mr Rayney takes to the witness stand to give evidence in a public courtroom on any of the allegations levelled at him since his estranged wife Corryn was murdered in 2007. Mr Rayney is challenging a decision by the Legal Practice Board to cancel his certificate to practise law. In the State Administrative Tribunal on Wednesday, it emerged that former WA Governor and experienced QC Malcolm McCusker will represent Mr Rayney at the appeal hearing scheduled to be held in October. Mr Rayney is appealing to the SAT after the LPB informed him of the cancellation last month over concerns about his behaviour shortly before his Supreme Court registrar wife was murdered – namely allegations he taped conversations with his wife and deliberately disposed of a dictaphone used to record them when he knew police had a search warrant. The Legal Profession Complaints Committee’s investigation of Mr Rayney is ongoing but should be finalised soon, the tribunal was told. Mr Rayney has previously given a commitment to the LPB that he would not engage in legal practice in WA again without first giving 42 days notice. Mr Rayney was acquitted of wilful murder in 2012 and a subsequent appeal was dismissed. The former prosecutor was also acquitted in May of enlisting a surveillance expert to illegally intercept his wife’s landline phone calls after a District Court judge ruled midway through the trial that Mr Rayney had no case to answer. Ms Rayney disappeared after her weekly bootscooting class and was found buried in Kings Park in August 2007. Mr Rayney’s is suing the State Government for defamation after a senior detective labelled him the “prime” and “only” suspect in his wife’s murder about a month after she was killed. A cold case review of Mrs Rayney’s unsolved murder was launched in May.