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Victoriaâs legal watchdog is threatening to cancel the practising certificate of the lawyer behind a class action launched on behalf of 3000 public housing tower residents who were compulsorily shut inside their homes at the height of the coronavirus pandemicâs second wave.
Emails seen by
The Age confirm the Victorian Legal Services Board wrote to solicitor Serene Teffaha in March to provide her with a ânotice of proposed cancellation of practising certificateâ.
Solicitor Serene Teffaha of Advocate Me says she intends to contest the action from the Victorian Legal Services Board.
The notice was sent to Ms Teffaha, a high-profile anti-lockdown activist, at the same time that she filed the class action on behalf of thousands of public housing tenants subjected to the hard lockdown by the state government and confined to their homes in July 2020.
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The Victorian Health Department clocked up legal fees exceeding $6.25 million during the hotel quarantine inquiry, despite a portion of the advice it received from top tier law firm MinterEllison allegedly falling short of legal professional standards.
The $6.25 million bill is also expected to grow, as only “a small number of invoices” had so far been processed, the Health Department revealed in answers to questions on notice from a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the state government’s COVID-19 response.
The Victorian government has spent over $7.7 million on legal advice in an inquiry into how COVID-19 spread from quarantine hotels such as the Rydges on Swanston.