Thorpe, Terrance William
Allegation / charges
<p>Ground 1: Breached Rule 62 of the Bar Rules when he failed to inform the defence representatives, or the Court:</p><p>(a) of the fact that a key prosecution witness said at a witness conference, attended by the Respondent on 27/07/2009, words that were omitted from the typed conference notes, including the words "am registered informant"</p><p>(b) of the fact that handwritten notes of the conference existed</p><p>(c) of the fact that the typed version of the conference notes was an edited version of the handwritten notes</p><p>(d) of the fact that the police had informed the DPP that the key prosecution witness was an informer for police</p><p>Ground 2: Breached Rules 66 and 66A of the Barristers' Rules</p><p>Ground 4: Misled or attempted to mislead his opponent</p><p>Ground 5: Misled, or attempted to mislead the Court and/or the jury</p> — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The respondent barrister faced grounds of professional misconduct including breaching Rule 62 by failing to disclose to the defence or Court that a key prosecution witness was a registered police informer, that handwritten conference notes existed and had been edited, and that police had informed the DPP of the witness's informer status. Further grounds alleged breaches of Rules 66 and 66A and misleading his opponent and the Court/jury. The provided text does not record an express finding of dishonesty nor state any sanction.
Duties found breached:
- Not mislead the court
- No improper communication with the court
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- No conflict between current clients
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=aa114d07-f5ec-4ef2-9e9c-26125a796550