NCA bombing accused’s son and former lawyer Anthony Perre back in court on driving charges
A former Adelaide lawyer has again found himself on the other side of the law and back in court years after he was convicted for a drug bunker discovered at his home.
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Just two years after he received a criminal conviction over the discovery of a drug bunker at his home, a disgraced Adelaide lawyer and the son of NCA bombing accused Domenic Perre has again faced court.
Anthony Perre, 40, of Waterloo Corner, first appeared in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court in November last year on charges he drove at a dangerous speed and that he exceeded the speed limit by 45km/h on the Northern Expressway at Bolivar last year.
Mr Perre has not entered pleas to the charges and is due back in court in June.
According to Mr Perre’s business profile, he was a practising lawyer for almost 18 years and was the director of his own firm based out of Salisbury until November last year.
His profile indicates he now works as a traffic controller.
After pleading guilty in 2017 to two summary offences – diverting electricity and possessing prescribed equipment for growing cannabis for personal use, relating to his drug bunker – the then-lawyer was convicted and fined $1400.
At the time, magistrate Yoong Fee Chin said Mr Perre’s offending could bring the legal profession into disrepute.
“The members of the legal profession in a democratic society … are the de facto guardians of the law. This calling has to be zealously guarded,” Mr Chin said.
Mr Perre was also found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and had his practising certificate suspended for six weeks after a two-year investigation by Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner Greg May.
SA Law Society president Justin Stewart-Rattray confirmed the ex-lawyer was no longer practising.
“Mr Perre does not currently hold a South Australian practising certificate,” he said.
“As far as we are aware, there has been no further disciplinary developments since the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner’s finding in 2019 of unsatisfactory professional conduct.”
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