O'donnell, Bernard Kevin

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — K P O'Donnell & Associates

Case number[2015] NSWCATOD 17

Date20-Mar-2015

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Improperly charging fees for acting as Attorney & Enduring Guardian 2. Misappropriation 3. Breaching rule 12 of the Solicitors Rules 4. Misleading the Guardianship Tribunal 5. Falsely informing the Law Society and a trust account Investigator that his law practice had not held trust money subject to a special power or authority 6. Attempting to mislead the Legal Services Commissioner in the course of an investigation — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The solicitor was found guilty of professional misconduct arising from improperly charging fees while acting as Attorney and Enduring Guardian, misappropriation, breach of rule 12 of the Solicitors Rules, misleading the Guardianship Tribunal, falsely informing the Law Society and a trust account investigator about trust money, and attempting to mislead the Legal Services Commissioner. The provided text lists the charges and the finding of professional misconduct but does not state an express finding of dishonesty or specify the sanction imposed.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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