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Di Giovanni, Maria Grazia

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Iron Cove Law Pty Ltd
Case number[2024] NSWCATOD 66
Date19-May-2023
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales On 15 June 2023, Ms Di Giovanni commenced proceedings in the Tribunal to seek administrative review of the Committee’s resolutions On 24 May 2024 NCAT varied the orders of the Committee
OutcomeReprimand Solicitor to undertake and complete further legal education Provide an apology to her former client $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

The Respondent Solicitor and/or the Law Practice acted in the sale of the property in circumstances where there was a conflict of interest between the vendor (the Complainant), the purchasers (the Respondent Solicitor’s aunt and uncle) and/or the Respondent Solicitor, in enabling the Respondent Solicitor’s aunt and uncle to purchase the Property on commercially favourable terms. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The Respondent Solicitor and/or the Law Practice acted in a property sale despite a conflict of interest between the vendor, the purchasers (the solicitor's aunt and uncle) and/or the solicitor, enabling the relatives to purchase on commercially favourable terms. This was found to constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no sanction is stated in the excerpt.

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=12290ead-f6be-4cf1-8892-a1703dd67807