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Armstrong, Kathlin Annita

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor
Case number[2024] NSWCA 98
Date06-May-2024
HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal
OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer’s name from the Roll of Australian lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

On 21 October 2020, Kathlin Annita Armstrong, was found guilty in the Local Court of seven charges of dishonestly obtain a financial advantage by deception, one charge of dishonestly obtain property by deception (collectively, the fraud offences), and one charge of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence (the menace offence). On 21 December 2020, the Magistrate convicted Ms Armstrong and sentenced her as follows: on the fraud offences, to an aggregate term of imprisonment of 2 years and 6 months, which the Magistrate ordered, on 14 January 2021, be served by way of an intensive correction order; and on the menace offence, to release on entering a recognisance in the sum of $500 to be of good behaviour for 18 months. — Not a fit and proper person to remain on the Roll of Australian Lawyers

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

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundYes

Kathlin Annita Armstrong was convicted in the Local Court on 21 October 2020 of seven fraud offences (dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage by deception), one charge of dishonestly obtaining property by deception, and one menace offence. On 21 December 2020 she was sentenced to an aggregate 2 years and 6 months imprisonment (served via an intensive correction order) for the fraud offences and a good behaviour recognisance of $500 for 18 months for the menace offence. She was found not a fit and proper person to remain on the Roll of Australian Lawyers.

Duties found breached:

⚠ 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=0e809c57-880d-4a59-810d-e8dfc4609827