Top lawyer's complainant had 'sense of duty' to women in legal profession

Top lawyer's complainant had 'sense of duty' to women in legal profession
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Riley Kennedy
Murray Tingey’s complainant came forward so many years later because she felt she had a “sense of duty” for women in the legal profession, the standards committee’s counsel says.A two-day hearing before the five-member Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal in Auckland wrapped up on Wednesday.It saw the complainant and Tingey give evidence on several events that happened more than a decade ago when the pair, who were in an intermittent relationship over a five-year period, both worked at Bell Gully.Tingey faced t...

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