Lloyd Rayney contests decision to cancel his licence to practise law
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Version 0 of 1. A former prominent Perth barrister, Lloyd Rayney, is fighting a decision by the legal practice board to cancel his certificate to practise law. Rayney has taken the matter to the state administrative tribunal after the board expressed concern about his behaviour shortly before his supreme court registrar wife, Corryn, was murdered. The board pointed to a 2010 judgment that was made public in June in which it was found that Rayney had taped conversations with his wife and deliberately disposed of recording devices when he knew police had a search warrant. Related: Fresh Corryn Rayney murder inquiry to include review of DNA evidence His lawyer, Martin Bennett, said the review was likely to be heard in late September or early October. Rayney was acquitted in May of enlisting a surveillance expert to illegally intercept his wife’s landline phone calls after a judge ruled midway through the trial that he had no case to answer. Corryn Rayney disappeared after her weekly line dancing class and was found buried head-first in a shallow grave at Kings Park in August 2007. Rayney was cleared of murdering her in 2012 and a subsequent appeal was also dismissed. He is still suing the state after senior police made allegedly defamatory comments about him a month after his wife was killed. A cold case review of Corryn Rayney’s murder was launched in May. |