Lawyers’ activities investigated
PA Auckland The activities of two Auckland lawyers named in the “Mr Asia” drugs and murder trial are still being investigated by the Auckland District Law Society. The society confirmed yesterday that it had received a "final reply” to the request for information from the Director of Public Prosecutions in London.
The society wrote to the British' authorities seeking
facts to substantiate the assertion of the prosecutor at the “Mr Asia" trial. The chief prosecuting counsel at the trial, Mr Michael McGuire, Q.C., told the . Court that the drugs syndicate had "lawyers in their palms” in New Zealand and Australia, whose jobs were to represent those who had bedn "busted." The Auckland District Law Society began a watchina
brief on the trial after the prosecutor’s comments. The executive of the society, Mr Graham Wear, said he was not free to disclose the contents of the reply from the Director of Public Prosecutions. Inquiries, he said, were still being made before the society could decide what action, if,any, it would take.
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