Harkin, David John

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister — Berkley Vale

Case number[2015] NSWCATOD 111

Date13-Oct-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. Practise without a current Practising Certificate 2. Failure to provide direct access disclosure, as required by the Barristers Rules 2011, to clients 3. Failure to provide costs disclosure 4. Non-compliance with trust money provisions 5. Practise without current Professional Indemnity cover 6. Lack of candour and cooperartion in dealings with Regulator — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The barrister was found guilty of professional misconduct arising from six matters: practising without a current practising certificate, failing to provide direct access disclosure and costs disclosure, non-compliance with trust money provisions, practising without professional indemnity cover, and a lack of candour and cooperation with the Regulator. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction 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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