Found guilty of perjury in 1986, he was fined, served a month in jail, became ineligible to sit in parliament for five years and was disbarred from legal practice.
Tracing four weeks in the life of Nancy, a doctor who performs abortions and who is waiting to see whether she will be disbarred from practising, it is an occasionally gory depiction of a difficult profession.
Labour's winner, Phil Woolas, has since been disbarred by a special election court for nasty, racially-loaded leaflets that played fast and loose with the truth (thus triggering the current by-election, at which Labour is being represented by a new candidate, Debbie Abrahams).
Smaller parties will struggle to put women on their lists and, without them, they will be disbarred.
Anybody who had done well under its rule might be deterred by the fate of some opposition politicians in the past variously ridiculed, sued for defamation, exposed in their peccadillos, disbarred from legal practice, bankrupted, or in exile.Yet, besides the PAP, six small parties contested this poll.
When, shortly before the election, it ruled that he had filed false asset information and duly disbarred him from politics for five years, he rejected its findings.
On April 26th, a federal appeals court in Missouri upheld a law barring protests within 300 feet of a military funeral, but it disbarred broader efforts by state legislators to keep protesters away from such occasions.
Five to ten lawyers come before the bar each year for misbehaving, and most voluntarily surrender their licences.If disbarred, Mr Clinton would find himself in relatively familiar company.
In at least 33 cases, the defendant was represented by a lawyer who was later disbarred or suspended.Illinois is not a special case.
Phelps, a graduate (1964) of Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, successfully defended black plaintiffs in discrimination cases before being disbarred (1979) in Kansas for professional misconduct; by 1989 he had also stopped practicing at the federal level, again owing to misconduct charges.
