Attorney Dr. Tony Molloy of Auckland, NZ; ethical misfit

The Law Society of New Zealand presented Dr. Tony Molloy with a law license in 1968.

The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal found Tony guilty of the following misconduct.

• Made derogatory comments about judges and the justice system
• Engaged in intemperate behavior
• Engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice
• Failed to uphold the law

Some of Tony’s derogatory statements are as follows:

• “This is not an attack on the competence of judges, but on their delusions of omnicompetence.”
• “How would you like your brain surgery done by a gynecologist or by an orthopedic surgeon?” You would balk at the stupidity of putting yourself in the hands of someone working outside his field, yet New Zealand lawyers and judges do it all the time.”
• “For the so-called justice system to charge daily hearing fees for judges so badly mismatched to the cases in hand is fraudulent.”
• “If they [judges] don’t know the law applicable to the case before them, it means they are already flouting their oath, which is pretty rich when it is considered that they can put witnesses in jail for flouting their oaths.”
• “But every High Court judge today is out of his or her depth in many fields of the law, and accordingly is sitting under false pretences when he or she is sitting in those fields.”

As a consequence of his misconduct, the patron saints for Attorney Misfits sitting on the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal punished Tony by gifting him with a complimentary censure.

As we speak (ca. June 2014), Tony practices with AP Molloy Queens Counsel on Shortland Street in Auckland, New Zealand.