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Reid, Benjamin Paul

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Reid & Vesely
Date12-Jun-2025
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales
OutcomeCancellation of Practising Certificate for the year ending 30 June 2025 pursuant to section 82(1)(d) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law $0.00 About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

The Solicitor failed to obey the Legal Profession Uniform Law; The Solicitor’s conduct was dishonourable and contrary to the duty of legal practitioners to be honest and to have the utmost good faith in all dealings in the course of legal practice; The Solicitor’s conduct is contrary to the Solicitor’s duty not to engage in conduct which is likely to a material degree to be prejudicial to, or diminish the public confidence in the administration of justice, or bring the profession into disrepute; and The Solicitor’s dishonest conduct is antithetical to the position of trust and confidence that legal practitioners are placed in. — The Council of the Law Society of New South Wales reasonably believes that the Lawyer is unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundYes

The tribunal made express findings that the solicitor engaged in dishonest and dishonourable conduct, breached the Legal Profession Uniform Law, and acted in a manner prejudicial to public confidence in the administration of justice. The Law Society Council reasonably believed the lawyer unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of a legal practitioner. No specific sanction is stated in the provided excerpt.

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=346a3d6a-9f46-4280-835a-50d5497ca56a