Breeze, Matthew Christopher

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister — 8th Floor Garfield Barwick Chambers

Case number[2015] NSWCATOD 152

Date18-Dec-2015

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeAdditional Orders made by the Tribunal (see Tribunal decision) Costs Reprimand $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Engaged in misleading conduct by knowingly making false statements to a bank in a loan application that the primary purpose of the loan was investment and on settlement the property would be leased;2. Engaged in misleading conduct by recklessly making a false or misleading statement in the loan application that an amount of $400,000 was a gift, when it was a repayable amount; and3. Engaged in misleading conduct by recklessly making a false or misleading statement in the loan application that an amount of $122,000 was not a loan when it was. — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct through misleading conduct in a bank loan application, including knowingly making a false statement about the loan's purpose and recklessly misrepresenting a $400,000 amount as a gift and a $122,000 amount as not a loan. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are contained in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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