Legal Practice Board of WA unlikely to investigate Christian Porter

Two professors have sought an inquiry into whether the attorney general is a fit and proper person' to remain on the roll of legal practitioners

The Legal Practice Board of Western Australia has poured cold water on a bid by two legal ethics academics to start an investigation into the attorney general, Christian Porter.

In an interview with Guardian Australia, the executive director of the board, Libby Fulham, questioned whether the academics had standing to bring a complaint or any substantive evidence" of the allegation that Porter sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in January 1988 when he was 17.