“I forgot” he says…
The UK Law Society Gazette reports
The Rt Hon Lord Keen of Elie QC, who is also advocate general for Scotland, was accused by the Bar Standards Board of breaching Core Duty 5, in behaving in a way ‘which was likely to diminish the trust and confidence which the public places in a barrister or in the profession’.
A three-man panel heard that Keen pleaded guilty in 2017 to breaching Section 2 of the Firearms Act 1968 by failing to secure a shotgun.
According to the BSB’s counsel, Tom Forster QC, Keen put the shot gun in the basement of his five-storey Edinburgh house after a Christmas shoot, intending to clean it and lock it in a safe. However, he forgot to do this, leaving the gun unsecured when he went on holiday.
The gun – along with ammunition– was discovered by police when Keen’s house was broken into and the police were called.
Forster told the tribunal: ‘The circumstances were that the gun was being kept in a property in an urban area… No reason has been advanced why the gun wasn’t put in a safe, save “I forgot”’.
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