Jail lawyer wants back to the bar

A FORMER high-profile criminal lawyer who is serving a jail term for fraud has asked a tribunal to let him continue practising after he gets out of prison.

Tim Meehan, 42, was sentenced in July last year to fiveand-a-half years’ jail after pleading guilty to aggravated fraud and eight counts of fraudulently falsifying records.

Meehan will be eligible for parole in December.

The Legal Services Commissioner has asked Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal to order his name be removed from the Queensland roll of solicitors. But in QCAT yesterday, Meehan’s counsel David Marks QC said Meehan wanted his name to remain on the legal roll.

QCAT president Justice Martin Daubney asked what had changed with regard to Meehan’s propriety to practise since his sentence. Mr Marks said Meehan signed an undertaking to assist Queensland Law Society in its investigation into “certain practitioners’’.

He said in light of “overt acts’’ he had undertaken, it was apparent Meehan had insight into his offending behaviour.

The tribunal reserved its decision.