{"id":60800,"date":"2021-04-17T07:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60800"},"modified":"2021-04-17T07:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T11:27:54","slug":"melbourne-lawyer-serene-teffaha-canceled-by-victorian-legal-services-board-after-covid-class-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60800","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Lawyer Serene Teffaha Canceled by Victorian Legal Services Board After Covid Class Action Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Email below details the cancellation of courageous Australian attorney fighting the unlawful Covid lockdown and other draconian measures<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sent: Saturday, 17 April 2021 7:22 AM<br \/>\nTo: Subject: VLSB shuts down Serene Teffaha<\/p>\n<p>Until two days ago, Melbourne lawyer Serene Teffaha represented thousands of clients who joined her class actions against the Victorian government. The class actions sought injunctions to restrain Victorian government authorities from imposing lockdowns and harassing and intimidating citizens under cover of the alleged COVID-19 crisis (read \u201cscandal\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>On 14 April 2021 the Victorian Legal Services Board (VLSB) cancelled Serene\u2019s practicing certificate and prohibited her from working, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what allegations, if any, VLSB made against Serene. Its notice of decision includes its finding that Serena is \u201cunable to fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner\u201d. No reasons are stated in the notice of decision.<\/p>\n<p>VLSB declared Serene a \u201cdisqualified person\u201d and appointed another lawyer to manage her legal practice. It is reasonable to think that the VLSB-appointee is a person palatable to the Victorian government. Serene\u2019s class action clients, who originally were assured that their identities would not be revealed, now will be named to the VLSB-appointed lawyer. Class action clients now reasonably fear that the VLSB-appointee may reveal their names to the defendant Victorian government authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is assisting the VLSB in freezing Serene\u2019s access to her firm\u2019s accounts and transferring management of her and her clients\u2019 assets to the VLSB-appointee.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email below details the cancellation of courageous Australian attorney fighting the unlawful Covid lockdown and other draconian measures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}