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Michail, Nancy

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — MN Legal & Management Consultants Pty Ltd - Manage
Date18-Oct-2023
HearingLegal Services Commissioner (NSW)
OutcomeReprimand Order Requiring Apology • Reprimand for the inappropriate oral submissions and the recklessly made false and misleading written submission to the NSW Supreme Court. • Order requiring apologies to the Director, Legal Regulation of the Law Society of NSW, a NSW District Court Judge, the Registrar of the NSW District Court and the (Acting) NSW Legal Services Commissioner. $0.00 Disciplinary Action

Allegation / charges

1. Making inappropriate oral submissions in the NSW Supreme Court, asserting that the Law Society “weren’t honest”, the NSW District Court “manipulate[d] recordings” and suggesting a District Court Judge’s orders were not made on a lawful basis. 2. Recklessly make and file materially false and misleading written submission in the NSW Supreme Court. 3. Recklessly make a false and misleading written statement to the office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner in a complaint investigation into the lawyer’s conduct. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The lawyer was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for making inappropriate oral submissions in the NSW Supreme Court, recklessly filing false and misleading written submissions, and recklessly making a false and misleading statement to the Legal Services Commissioner. The conduct was characterised as reckless rather than dishonest; no express finding of dishonesty was made. No sanction details are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=eacb67eb-643f-4c75-a020-eecc6af2b702