Successful review for James Gardner-Hopkins

Successful review for James Gardner-Hopkins
Former Russell McVeagh partner James Gardner-Hopkins has been suspended for practising law. (Image: Supplied)
Oliver Lewis
A decision not to appoint disgraced lawyer James Gardner-Hopkins to a consenting panel has been quashed after a successful judicial review.In June 2021, the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal found Gardner-Hopkins guilty of six charges of misconduct following accusations he sexually harassed summer law clerks in 2015.Gardner-Hopkins was a partner at top law firm Russell McVeagh at the time.Coverage of the issue by Newsroom triggered a reckoning about the extent of unacceptable behaviour in the legal profession, including several rev...

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