Decision record

Donnelly, Paul Joseph

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Donnelly Lawyers

Case number[2017] NSWCATOD 34

Date14-Mar-2017

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

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

Allegation / charges

1. Failures to appear at Court 2. Breach of trust account obligations 3. Breach of costs disclosure obligations 4. Mixing of trust monies and office account monies 5. Misappropriation 6. Failure to respond to Regulator's inquiries 7. Communicating with another solicitor's client 8. Failure to prepare for hearing 9. Attempted to mislead, or misled the Court 10. Discourtesy 11. Non-compliance with Court directions 12. Failure to supervise — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The text only enumerates categories of alleged misconduct (characterised as professional misconduct), including failures to appear at court, trust account and costs disclosure breaches, mixing of trust and office monies, misappropriation, failing to respond to the regulator, and misleading the court. No tribunal findings, dishonesty determination, sanction, or costs orders are stated in the provided material.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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