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Kazas-Rogaris, Anne

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — KR Lawyers & Consultants Pty Ltd
Case number[2024] NSWCATOD 166
Date15-Oct-2024
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeFine Reprimand $2,500.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

On 29 April 2022, the Professional Conduct Committee (Committee) of the Law Society of New South Wales resolved to do the following: (1) Find Ms Kazas-Rogaris guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct on the basis that, in breach of Rules 34.1.1 and 34.1.3 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015, she: (a) made a statement which grossly exceeded the legitimate assertion of the rights or entitlements of her client, and which mislead or intimidated another person; and (b) used tactics that went beyond legitimate advocacy, and which were primarily designed to embarrass or frustrate another person. (2) Make orders: (a) reprimanding Ms Kazas-Rogaris; and (b) requiring Ms Kazas-Rogaris to pay a fine in the sum of $2,500. On 27 May 2022, Ms Kazas-Rogaris commenced proceedings in the Tribunal to seek administrative review of the Committee’s resolutions. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionFine
FineAUD 2,500
Dishonesty foundNo

The Professional Conduct Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales found Ms Kazas-Rogaris guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct for breaching Rules 34.1.1 and 34.1.3 of the Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 by making a statement that grossly exceeded her client's legitimate rights and misled/intimidated another person, and using tactics beyond legitimate advocacy designed to embarrass or frustrate. She was reprimanded and fined $2,500. She then sought administrative review of the resolutions in the Tribunal.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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