Gray, Ventry Rollo Wakefield
Allegation / charges
Breach of NSW Barristers' Rule 97 (as it then was) - a barrister must in certain circumstances refuse a brief if he/she has information which is confidential to any person with different interests to those of the prospective client and assisting a client in circumstances where the barrister has informationn confidential to the former clients which he obtained only in the course of and as a consequence of his earlier retainer — A reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The matter involved a barrister who breached NSW Barristers' Rule 97 by acting for/assisting a client while holding confidential information obtained from former clients with different interests, obtained through an earlier retainer. The decision found a reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no specific sanction is stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
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Documents
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=5e2e510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e