BRISBANE - Schapelle Corby's former lawyer has been struck off for making disparaging remarks on television about the convicted drug smuggler's family.
The Legal Services Commissioner recently took Robin Tampoe to court on charges that he breached client confidentiality when he appeared on the television programme Sunday in June 2005.
It was alleged Tampoe spoke with his client's sister, Mercedes Corby, who told him of past criminal convictions within the Corby family.
He then revealed this information on television.
Tampoe claimed he thought the information was public knowledge and not confidential.
He also then called the Corby family "trash" in the documentary, Schapelle Corby - The Hidden Truth.
In a written judgment published today in the Queensland Legal Practice Tribunal, Justice Roslyn Atkinson found Tampoe guilty of professional misconduct and ordered he be struck off the roll of legal practitioners.
Corby is serving a 20-year sentence in Indonesia for the importation of cannabis into Bali.
- AAP
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