HAYDN WESLEY DIXON
JurisdictionAustralia — Western Australia
BodyLegal Practice Board of Western Australia (LPBWA)
Professionlawyer — PO Box 7676 Cloisters Square PERTH WA 6850
Case numberLegal Practitioners Complaints Committee -v- Dixon [2006] WASCA 27
Date15 December 2005
HearingSupreme Court of WA
OutcomeStruck Off the Roll of Practitioners
Allegation / charges
Struck Off the Roll of Practitioners
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundYes
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal reported to the Full Bench that Haydn Wesley Dixon had committed serious unprofessional and illegal conduct during Family Court proceedings with his wife. He deliberately concealed about A$60,000 held in Development Bank of Singapore accounts in his name/his and his mother's names, falsely representing full discovery and swearing false affidavits (perjury) between 1992 and 1997. The Tribunal rejected his defence that he had gifted the money to his mother, finding his statements deliberately false. The Full Court agreed the conduct demonstrated unfitness to practise and struck his name off the Roll.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Deliberate concealment of assets from his wife and from the Family Court
- Perjury directly related to his duty as an officer of the Court and the integrity of court proceedings
- Conduct spanning multiple years (1992-1997)
- Funds would have materially affected Family Court property settlement and maintenance orders
Mitigating factors:
- Practitioner did not oppose the making of the orders
- Practitioner had not practised in the jurisdiction since the Tribunal's determination