Decision record

Roberts, Dai Peter

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Mark Rumore Solicitors

Case number[2003] NSWADT 101

Date13-May-2003

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeCompensation Order Costs Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00

Allegation / charges

Professional Misconduct 1. Gross negligence & delay/gross delay 2. Failed to comply with a Notice under Section 152 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 3. Misappropriated trust monies 4. Breached Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys 5. Misled Court/Tribunal 6. Misled client 7. Failed to keep client adequately advised 8. Failed to account 9. Failed to pay counsel's fees Unsatisfactory professional conduct 1. Misled Law Society 2. Delay 3. Failed to respond to client 4. Failed to safely secure documents — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The document lists findings of professional misconduct including gross negligence and delay, failure to comply with a Section 152 notice, misappropriation of trust monies, breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987, misleading the court, client and Law Society, failure to account and failure to pay counsel's fees, alongside unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction or costs details are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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