Stuff.co.NZ report…….The New Zealand Law Society has launched an investigation into the activities of Nelson-based lawyer and anti-Covid vaccine campaigner Sue Grey?.
Following several complaints about Grey by individuals and at least one group, the society advised them by letter this week that the standards committee had “resolved of its own motion to investigate general concerns raised around Ms Grey’s activities”.
Grey, who is co-leader of the NZ Outdoors Party??, has a large following on social media and regularly posts anti-vaccine content, including false claims of Covid-19 deaths and promotion of alternative and unproven treatments.
She recently represented four security workers in a high court case against the Government’s mandatory vaccine order, which the workers lost.
In mid-September, Glenn Jeffrey?, a former photojournalist, made a complaint about Grey after she claimed an Auckland year 13 student who died from an unrelated cause was the first “teen death” from the Covid-19 vaccine. The claim was made in a social media post seen by Stuff and later removed by the platform.
Jeffrey said he felt assured the society was taking the complaints seriously after receiving notice confirming the investigation.
“I hope she is disbarred, I hope she is stripped of her ability to practice law in New Zealand. She has brought the New Zealand legal system into disrepute with her lies and her baseless allegations against people, the vaccine roll-out.”
Complaints received by the society are referred to an independent standards committee for investigation, a process that can be lengthy. Complaints deemed serious enough can be referred to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal.
The tribunal can suspend a lawyer or strike them from the Roll of Barristers and Solicitors, which would prevent them from practising law.
In a statement following Grey’s post about the Auckland teen, the NZ Outdoors Party? claimed deaths from the Covid-19 vaccine were “government mandated genocide”.
To date, only one death in New Zealand has been linked to the Pfizer Covid vaccination.
FACT Aotearoa?, an informal group of 45 people including scientists and doctors set up to counter misinformation, lodged a formal complaint with the New Zealand Law Society? against Grey in late October.
They said Grey has breached the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008, which state “a lawyer must not engage in conduct that tends to bring the profession into disrepute”.
