Perth Lawyer Banned from Practising Law
Thursday February 26, 2009
Josephine Pepe was told by Perth Supreme Court's judge that she was banned from practising after she was found guilty of perverting the course of justice last year.
The ex-lawyer from Perth was charged when she was found guilty of trying to convince a potential witness from giving evidence at her de facto's trial.
After her de facto Julian Murray was arrested for conspiring to assault a pregnant woman, she told Gary Edward Fitzgerald who was going to testify against him that, "this honestly won't do anything for you except to f*** me up," and Murray was acquitted.
Following Pepe's one-year suspended imprisonment sentence, the Legal Practitioners Complaints applied to the full bench of the Supreme Court in Perth to have her expelled from practising law. The Perth court believed that Pepe's behaviour fully abandoned the standards a lawyer should hold.
"She attempted to strike down the processes of the law and the courts for her own personal reasons and benefit, without regard for the hazard of his implication in the process of perverting the course of justice, which she created for Fitzgerald," Perth Now reported the court as saying.
