Oleh Penarik Beca
Naib Presiden Umno yang juga Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi berkata:
..di mana yang melakukan perbuatan itu bukanlah saudara Rohaizat tetapi bekas rakan kongsinya (mStar Online 16/8/09 "Dakwaan firma guaman salah guna wang tak libatkan calon BN")
Presiden Majlis Peguam, Ragunath Kesavan pula berkata:
"The offence was for personal liability and does not involve any other persons, as Rohaizat was named by the complainant, and not his partner," Bar Council president explained.
"Rohaizat was disbarred on March 7 last year and he appealed against the Bar Council decision to the High Court, which also dismissed his appeal on Aug 12 this year" (Malaysian Insider 18/8/09 "Umno represented by disbarred lawyer ")
Dalam posting blog ini yang bertajuk "Ada pekung di dada calon BN Permatang Pasir?" Tharieq Dhiyauddin berpesan:
Apabila datang satu berita maka selildikilah dahulu...
Pesanan beliau sesuai dengan ayat keenam Surah al-Hujurat:
Hai orang-orang yang beriman, jika datang kepadamu orang fasik membawa suatu berita, maka periksalah dengan teliti agar kamu tidak menimpakan suatu musibah kepada suatu kaum tanpa mengetahui keadaannya yang menyebabkan kamu menyesal atas perbuatanmu itu.
Oleh kerana Zahid pernah menjadi menteri yang bertanggungjawab hal ehwal agama tentulah beliau tidak fasik. Dan, takkan pula beliau nak berbohong.
Lagi pun, Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata BNtidak akan berbohong kepada pengundi semata-mata untuk meraih sokongan.
Saya cadangkan kepada Rohaizat agar mencabar keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi 12 Ogos lalu yang menolak rayuannya berikutan tindakan Majlis Peguam memecatnya.
Tak patut Rohaizat dihukum sedangkan, seperti cakap benar Zahid, "yang melakukan perbuatan itu bukanlah saudara Rohaizat tetapi bekas rakan kongsinya".
Saya juga mencadangkan Rohaizat mengambil tindakan undang-undang ke atas Majlis Peguam yang menuduh beliau terlibat dalam salah laku dan memecatnya kerana, seperti cakap benar Zahid, "yang melakukan perbuatan itu bukanlah saudara Rohaizat tetapi bekas rakan kongsinya".
Berkaitan:
Ketua cawangan tak puas hati pemilihan Rohaizat? (Malaysiakini 18/8/09)
Bar says BN candidate disbarred for failing to return client’s money(Malaysian Insider 18/8/09)
Bar Council: Rohaizat disbarred for personal misconduct
The Star Online (18/8/09): Rohaizat Othman, Barisan Nasional’s for the Permatang Pasir by-election, was taken off the advocates and solictors roll on March 7 last year after he was found guilty of personal misconduct, Bar Council secretary George Varughese said.
The Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board’s decision arose from an investigation into a complaint lodged against Rohaizat by the purchaser of a piece of real property, Varughese said in a press statement on Tuesday.
Rohaizat, who is also the Permatang Pauh Umno division secretary, had allegedly failed to refund almost RM161,000 to the complainant after the transaction was aborted.
Rohaizat appealed against the decsion of the Disciplinary Board to the High Court, and the appeal was dsimissed on Aug 12.
“He is therefore legally disqualified from practising as an advocate and solicitor,” Varughese said.
The finding of misconduct is personal to Rohaizat Othman, as the Disciplinary Board would not hold a lawyer liable for the actions of his or her law partners, he added
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