Supreme Court upholds BCI decision to suspend lawyer who sold suit property of client for commission

The Bar Council had suspended the petitioner-advocate for five years, as he admittedly sold off his client's property to a third party for a commission.

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The Supreme Court recently upheld the 5-year suspension of an advocate who had sold off a client's property to a third party after getting a general power of attorney over the same [Syed Altaf Ahmed vs S Suson].

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