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Ghobrial, Michael

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Michael Ghobrial - Manager appointed
Case number[2024] NSWCA 307
Date20-Dec-2024
HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal
OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer’s name from the Roll of Australian lawyers $0.00 Disciplinary Action

Allegation / charges

On 18 September 2020, in the District Court of New South Wales (case number 2019/00157900) (District Court Proceedings) before his Honour Judge Hanley SC, the respondent adhered to pleas of guilty entered in the Local Court on 13 March 2020 with respect to two charges under s 125 of the Crimes Act 1900 as follows: a) Between 11:40am on 13 April 2018 and 11:40am on 25 October 2018 at Penrith, did steal $236,785.91, the property of Melissa ISON. b) Between 11: 40am on 13 April 2018 and 11:40am on 25 October 2018 at Penrith, did steal $246,785.91, the property of Craig HALLORAN. — Not a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundYes

The respondent pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing large sums of money (over $236,000 and $246,000) belonging to two individuals, contrary to s 125 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). As a result, the respondent was found not to be a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers.

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=18319d91-63ba-4d1c-9c5c-61410402f68e