Murray Tingey

Murray Tingey has admitted breaking down his ex's door, but says following her to her car wasn't an intimidating act.

His alleged behaviour led the woman to resign later in 2011. “I had foolishly allowed the relationship to continue. [Murray Tingey](https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/86234900/leading-lawyer-leaves-bell-gully-with-little-comment) is appearing before the Lawyers and Conveyers Disciplinary Tribunal in Auckland, facing charges of misconduct in relation to incidents over a decade ago. [top insolvency lawyer](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300840646/lawyer-broke-down-former-girlfriends-door-allegedly-threatened-to-ruin-career?rm=a) has denied a pattern of angry, aggressive behaviour towards a fellow lawyer with whom he was in a secret relationship. Years before the complaint was made, Tingey apologised to the woman after their breakdown of their relationship, Illingworth said. The woman made the complaint out of a sense of duty to other women in the profession, Dew said. “She has a clear and distressing memory of the impact of his behaviour at the time.” The woman said she was told to keep quiet about the relationship. The woman told the tribunal she took Tingey’s threat to “poison my professional reputation” very seriously. However, Tingey denied his behaviour during another 2009 incident, where he followed the woman from the office to her car to attempt to stop her from going on a date, was intimidating. That incident was “the worst thing that ever happened to me”, he said. However, Stuff can report the woman was employed as a solicitor at Bell Gully from 2004 to 2008 and the pair were in an intermittent secret relationship for a period of time.