* Antonnette Haughton Cardenas: Of the 38 disbarred, one of the more prominent faces is that of the colourful former talk show host and co-founder of minority political movement, the United People’s Party, which fell flat after it contested the 2002 general elections. Haughton Cardenas was struck off by the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council on September 17 last year for defrauding one of her clients of $2.3 million in a real estate transaction. She failed to turn up in court late last year to answer fraud charges in respect of a claim that she did not pay over $7 million awarded by the Supreme Court to 61-year-old farmer Samuel Brown in October 2006. A bench warrant has been issued for her arrest and local police say that she is overseas.

* Trevor Malcolm: The budding young practitioner who harboured thoughts of entering politics, but who fled Jamaica in 1988 and has not been seen here since. Malcolm, who was born in England but moved to Belfield, St Mary with his family as a child in the early 1960s, was accused of fleecing several clients, some of whom he allegedly convinced that he could get them United States visas if they paid him certain sums of money. A former president of the Guild of Undergraduates of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Malcolm left Jamaica before authorities could slap him with charges in early 1988 and has led a low-profile life since. He is believed to be in the United Kingdom.

* Probyn Aiken: The former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour, who was jailed alongside former minister JAG Smith for defrauding the Overseas Farm Work programme in the 1980s. Aiken was convicted of defrauding the Farm Work Programme and sentenced to a year in prison, while Smith received an 18-month sentence.

* Sonia Jones: The well-known lawyer who sprung from a family of legal minds lost her licence to practice on May 11, 2002 after she was imprisoned for defrauding two clients of US$83,740. The clients said that they gave Jones the money to invest in a fixed deposit account, but she used the money for her own purposes. She died on November 25, 2007, aged 61, from ovarian cancer.

* J Vernon Ricketts: The attorney was taken off the roll of practising attorneys on July 22, 2006 for misconduct. Complainant couple Frederick and Madge Morris told the Disciplinary Committee of the GLC that they paid Ricketts $2 million to transfer nine parcels of land in Westmoreland to potential buyers in 2003, but he did not effect the transfers. Although he appealed the decision, Ricketts was found to have breached procedure and his appeal was dismissed.

* Georgette Scott: Her name was erased from the list on October 14, 2008, after she misappropriated $750,000, which she collected in a land deal from a client.

* Robert Baugh: The industrial relations lawyer frequently appeared for employers before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

* Burnham Scott: He is the only Queen’s Counsel to be disbarred.

* Dahlia Allen: The human rights activist made a name for herself in Montego Bay’s infamous Street People scandal.

* Therol Voche: The former head of VCI General Insurance Company was struck off on March 6, 2004 after the insurance company collapsed and $236 million vanished in 1999. He had been running the company with his wife.

* Nancy Tulloch-Darby and her husband Derrick Darby: The duo were prevented from utilising their expertise gained from legal training after different sets of clients accused them of using their money. Nancy was cut from the list on June 15, 2002, resulting from a guilty verdict against her for defrauding clients of over $60 million at the time. Her husband was struck off on April 12, 2003.

* Shaun Reynolds: He ran for the minority party, the National Democratic Movement, in the general election of 1997 after he got upset with the People’s National Party for choosing incumbent Ben Clare over him in Hanover West; he lost his licence on March 31, 2007.

* D Marjorie Rose: In one of the more bizarre cases, she lost her licence on March 14, 1992 after a man who claimed that he was romantically attached to her complained that his former lover had defrauded him.

* L E A FORDE – disbarred on February 16, 1985.

* Fay Sylvester Williamson Benjamin – disbarred on February 16, 1991

* Leeland Playfair – disbarred October 24, 1997

* Clinton Hines – disbarred on September 19, 1992

* Pauline Simpson – disbarred October 19, 1993

* Dennis Tomlinson – disbarred February 15, 1997

* Melbourne Silvera – disbarred November 26, 1997

* Ramnath Hetram – disbarred November 11, 1998

* Donald Bernard – January 15, 2000

* Franklin Beckford – disbarred July 1, 2000

* Myrtle Johnson – disbarred February 2, 2000

* Kevin Martin – disbarred March 29, 2001

* Audrey Heslop Mendez – disbarred November 30, 2002

* Carol Churchill – disbarred April 27, 2002

* Noel Williams Jnr – disbarred March 7, 2002

* Winston Walters – disbarred October 4, 2003

* Audley Foster – disbarred May 17, 2003

* Freddie Brown – disbarred January 1, 2003

* Trevor Robinson – disbarred February 15, 2003

* Paul I Miller – disbarred February 3, 2005

* Raphael Bishop – disbarred April 30, 2005

* Ericson H Williams – disbarred January 14, 2006

* Lorraine Earle – disbarred March 22, 2006

* Cynthia Levy Brown – disbarred May 20, 2006