Farr (nee Tangney), Clare Catherine Mary
Allegation / charges
<p>1. Failure to communicate</p><p>2. Failure to provide documents</p><p>3. Gross delay</p><p>4. Knowingly swore a false statutory declaration</p><p>5. Misled or attempted to mislead the Law Society</p><p>6. Hindered, obstructed or delayed the Investigator</p><p>7. Failure to transfer file upon receipt of a signed authority</p><p>8. Failure to account</p><p>9. Gross delay in submitting a memorandum of costs and accounting to client</p><p>10. Delay in finalisnig her trust account</p><p>11. Failure to provide detailed account and report on settlement</p><p>12. Failure to communicate</p><p>13. Failure to complete retainer</p> — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct across numerous matters including failures to communicate, provide documents, and account to clients, gross delays, knowingly swearing a false statutory declaration, misleading or attempting to mislead the Law Society, obstructing the investigator, and failing to complete a retainer. Although charge 4 concerned swearing a false statutory declaration knowingly, the provided text contains no express tribunal finding of dishonesty and no stated sanction, fine, or costs figures.
Duties found breached:
- Avoid wasting the court's time
- No improper communication with the court
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- Proper termination and return of instructions
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Prompt accounting and return of money
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=0159a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e