A Canberra lawyer who claimed he was the victim of an orchestrated campaign against him has been named and struck from the roll of legal practitioners after multiple complaints.

At a hearing for the decision to remove him, Chanaka Nihal Bandarage told the court while he may be called a liar and get thrown out of the profession, his conscience was clear.

Chanaka Bandarage in 2003 while representing an Australian citizen convicted of spying for the Australian government in China. Credit:Graham Tidy

"I can say that you guys are the crooks. You guys are the crooks, I am not the crook," he said.

But Mr Bandarage’s apparent inability to accept and learn from the findings against him proved his downfall, with the judges saying such traits were critical to a lawyer’s fitness to practise.