Van Aalst, Julian Samuel
Allegation / charges
In October 2012 Mr Van Aalst asked his instructing solicitor to sign a costs agreement that was backdated to October 2010 and which he also asked the complainant, his client, to sign. Mr Van Aalst then relied on this costs agreement before the Court to advance his application for a lump sum costs order, as though the costs agreement had been signed in October 2010. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
Mr Van Aalst asked his instructing solicitor and client to sign a costs agreement backdated from October 2012 to October 2010, then relied on it before the Court to support a lump sum costs order as if genuinely signed in 2010. The conduct was found to be Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct. No express finding of dishonesty appears in the excerpt and no sanction is stated.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=926e5561-738a-4761-9839-3608b26762cd