THE Court of Appeal has chastised a fake attorney for asking it to dismiss the Bahamas Bar Council’s attempts to overturn a judge’s order that he be given legal credentials, when that very order was based on his own “dishonesty”. The appellate court said Shavon Bethel “cannot be heard” to complain about any process to correct an order made pursuant to his false statements, when he has already benefited from that order by “failing to disclose his own dishonesty”. Asserting that Bethel was “clearly less than honest” to the court, the appellate judges said if the court knew Bethel lied on his application to both the English and Bahamas Bar, the order “would never have been made”. In any event, however, the appellate judges suggested that there is nothing in the Legal Profession Act nor the regulations made under that law that obliges the Bar Council to give its members those credentials in the first place.

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