ANOTHER bid has been made to have Adelaide lawyer Eugene McGee sanctioned over a fatal hit-and-run crash.
The South Australian opposition has presented a 7000-signature petition to state parliament calling for the case to be referred to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal.
The tribunal has the power to impose penalties if a lawyer is guilty of unprofessional or unsatisfactory conduct.
Opposition justice spokesman Stephen Wade said while Mr McGee had already been cleared by the Legal Practitioners Conduct Board, the tribunal was another avenue of review.
Mr McGee was driving a car that hit and killed cyclist Ian Humphrey in 2003 on a country road, north of Adelaide.
He fled the scene but turned himself into police several hours later.
He was charged with causing death by dangerous driving but was ultimately found guilty of the lesser charge of driving without due care, fined $3100 and lost his driver's licence for 12 months.
Mr Wade said the opposition had been seeking further action to review Mr McGee's actions for almost two years.
He said the case showed that the current complaints process was failing South Australians and leaving them without a robust framework to deal with their concerns.
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon backed the new call to have Mr McGee's case reviewed.
He said the petition filed in the SA parliament was only the "tip of a very large iceberg of community revulsion".
"This case feeds into people's deepest suspicions of the legal community," Senator Xenophon said.
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