Decision record
McCrudden, Rory Devlin Stepinac Michael
Allegation / charges
Ground 1: Payment of $94,200 to the barrister without being provided with a costs agreement, invoices or receipts Ground 2: Preparation of the complainant’s criminal defence for trial, specifically: (i) selection of the location of the trial; (ii) selection of expert witnesses and lay witnesses; (iii) the barrister himself writing the report for an expert witness; (iv) the barrister’s failure to develop a strategy for the case based on an issue that the complainant considered to be critical (the authenticity of documents relied upon by the Crown); and (v) the barrister’s failure to subpoena relevant documents. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct on two grounds: accepting/paying $94,200 to a barrister without a costs agreement, invoices or receipts, and deficiently preparing the complainant's criminal defence for trial. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and the provided text does not state a specific sanction.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Documents
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=6a6a15f3-de16-4158-b6d5-db507507701d