The Guardian reports
Serene Teffaha, who has filed a lawsuit against Victoria’s Covid lockdown, says the state’s Legal Services Board has ‘threatened to cancel’ her
A lawyer who has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Victorian government on behalf of public housing tower residents who were shut inside their homes during Melbourne’s 2020 Covid lockdown is under investigation by the state’s legal services board.
The Melbourne-based lawyer, Serene Teffaha, who during the pandemic has appeared at anti-lockdown rallies and on YouTube with conspiracists such as the former celebrity chef Pete Evans, last week filed a class-action lawsuit in Victoria’s supreme court on behalf of the residents.
But the Guardian has confirmed Teffaha is the subject of an investigation by the Victorian Legal Services Board, the body charged with regulating the legal profession in the state.
While a spokesman for the VLSB said it did not comment on current investigations, in posts made on social media and in an interview with the Guardian, Teffaha claimed the authority had “threatened to cancel” her.
