Facts
X., a lawyer in C., was criminally convicted on 15 June 2009 by the Cantonal Court of the Canton of Valais for calumnious denunciation, disobedience to an authority's decision, and calumny. On 23 April 2010, the President of the Cantonal Supervisory Authority for Lawyers removed X. from the cantonal register of lawyers, considering that the acts for which he had been convicted were incompatible with the practice of the legal profession. X. appealed this decision to the SCC.Considerations
The SCC dismissed the appeal. It considered that the supervisory authority has broad discretion to determine whether the acts for which a lawyer has been criminally convicted are incompatible with the profession, while respecting the principle of proportionality. In this case, the SCC found that the lawyer's act of instrumentalizing the justice system for his own benefit, disregarding a judicial prohibition, and making extremely serious accusations before the disciplinary authority in order to harm his colleagues, constituted behavior incompatible with the legal profession, thus justifying his removal from the register.
The SCC also specified that…