Dear Sir,

The thing that occurs to me, having read the affidavits in this waterfront bribery case, is why on Earth a bona fide developer, thinking he had been wronged by a government decision and that he was due millions of dollars in compensation because of it, would employ a lawyer such as Llewellyn Peniston to press his case?

He already had a team of other lawyers working on his project.

Peniston was found guilty just a few years ago by a disciplinary tribunal of six counts of improper conduct, which your newspaper described as relating to “dishonesty and failing to observe professional ethics and etiquette”. He also admitted a charge of practising while he was suspended as a result of an earlier complaint against him.

His appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed.

Bermuda is full of clever, good lawyers. Why pick one known to be dishonest?

PUZZLED