On 20 December 1995, pursuant to disciplinary proceedings instituted by the Bar Council of the New South Wale Bar Association, the Legal Profession Tribunal (as it then was) ordered that the name of Maurice Gordon Kriss be removed from the roll of legal practitioners.

The Legal Practitioners' Board refused to approve a subsequent application by Maurice Gordon Kriss for readmission.

Maurice Gordon Kriss appealed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales pursuant to sec 14 of the Legal Profession Act, 1987, against the Legal Practitioners' Admission Board's refusal to approve his application for readmission. The first defendant, the Legal Practitioners' Admission Board, filed a submitting appearance and the New South Wales Bar Association appeared as second defendant.

On 18 October 2002 Cooper AJ of the Supreme Court of New South Wales made the following orders:

1. That the appeal be allowed.

2. That subject to the condition that he undertake and successfully complete the Bar Association's Readers' Course, the application of Maurice Gordon Kriss for admission as a legal practitioner be approved.