Loukas, William (Bill) Vasilios

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionbarrister — Sir Anthony Mason Chambers

Case number[2025] NSWCATOD 39

Date17-Apr-2025

HearingCouncil of The New South Wales Bar Association

OutcomeThe Tribunal orders, by consent, that the Respondent (1) be reprimanded (2) pay a fine to the applicant of $5,000 (3) undertake, complete and pass any reasonable educative course within 12 months from the date the orders are made (4) provide a statutory declaration to the applicant within 1 month of completing the educative courses (5) agrees to pay the applicant’s costs and disbursements incurred to date on the indemnity basis $5,000.00 Disciplinary Action

Allegation / charges

Ground 1: The respondent engaged in professional misconduct by acting unprofessionally, rudely and in an intimidating manner towards [Person A] and [Person B] in his written correspondence. Ground 2: The respondent engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct by misrepresenting to the applicant the professional nature of his relationship with [the Client] by asserting that he was engaged in a private capacity and not in his capacity as [the Client]’s barrister, noting however that the respondent did not deliberately misrepresent to the applicant the professional nature of his relationship with [the Client], and that any such misrepresentation was inadvertent. — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The respondent was found to have engaged in professional misconduct by acting unprofessionally, rudely and in an intimidating manner in written correspondence towards two persons (Ground 1), and unsatisfactory professional conduct by misrepresenting the professional nature of his relationship with the Client (Ground 2). The tribunal expressly found the misrepresentation was inadvertent and not deliberate, so no dishonesty was found. No sanction is stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

Mitigating factors:

The misrepresentation was not deliberate and was inadvertent

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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