Abhay Kumar SINGH

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

Mr Singh, admitted in Queensland in 2002, was convicted in Fiji in 2006 of attempting to pervert the course of justice by advising a Crown witness to change his evidence and offering payment while acting for a client. He failed to notify the Queensland Law Society of the conviction and failed to disclose it when renewing his practising certificate. QCAT found all three charges amounted to professional misconduct, expressly finding the conduct involved deliberate dishonesty going to the heart of the justice system. Given the seriousness and Mr Singh's lack of genuine insight or remorse, the Tribunal ordered his name removed from the local roll. Costs were reserved for determination on written submissions.

Duties found breached:

• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Seriousness of the offence going to the heart of the justice system
• Lack of genuine remorse or insight into the seriousness of the offending
• Persistent denial and relentless use of meritless legal stratagems including bringing meritless applications to permanently stay the QCAT proceedings
• Compounding the conviction by failing to disclose it to the Queensland Law Society

Mitigating factors:

• Long period (about ten years) elapsed since the original offending
• No other disciplinary proceedings or reoffending in Queensland
• Completed sentence and was disciplined in Fiji for the offence
• Numerous references testifying to his competence
• Otherwise long and previously unblemished period of practice