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Disgraced migration agent blocked from joining legal profession
A former migration agent’s legal aspirations have been dashed by a Supreme Court that found his history of providing inadequate advice to clients and lying to authorities was too recent.
Based on negative reports from a Board of Examiners and the Law Society of South Australia, the Supreme Court of South Australia found Ryan Raygan was not a fit and proper person to practise law and dismissed his application to join the legal profession.
Prior to graduating with a bachelor of law and graduate diploma in August 2022, Mr Raygan had been booted from the migration career for a number of contraventions, including failing to keep adequate client notes, failing to provide frank and candid advice to clients and copy-pasting from existing clients’ statement of claims to new ones.
The Migration Agents Registration Authority and the deputy president of the state’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal also found he regularly lied about his conduct or maintained his innocence despite evidence of his wrongdoing or his own conflicting statements.
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