Banned: Nesbitt has been banned from working as a solicitor.
A lawyer who was jailed for three and a half years after being caught with 31kgs of cannabis has been banned from working as a solicitor.
Employment solicitor Gerard Nesbitt, 54, and Iain McKenzie were jailed in May 2013 following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Police from the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency caught the pair with the narcotics at a flat in Battlefield, Glasgow, in May 2012.
After giving McKenzie, of Carntyne in Glasgow, four and a half years, judge Lord Burns told Nesbitt, who lived in the city’s Newlands, that he had no other option but to send him to prison.
Earlier this week, watchdogs at the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) struck Nesbitt’s name from the roll of solicitors.
The ruling means Nesbitt, who is currently serving his sentence at HMP Castle Huntley near Dundee, will not be able to work as a lawyer again.
In a written judgment issued by the SSDT, the tribunal’s vice chairman Douglas McKinnon said Nesbitt had a previous conviction for drugs offences.
He added: “Members of the public must have a well founded confidence that any solicitor whom they instruct will be a person of unquestionable integrity, probity and trustworthiness.
“As a solicitor, the Respondent was a member of a profession where a high standard of ethical conduct was required.”
Lawyer who was caught with 31kg stash of cannabis is struck off
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