Archer, Stephen John

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister

Case number[2009] NSWADT 283

Date13-Nov-2009

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers (09//04/2010 Disciplinary Action) $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Deliberately chose, during a significant number of years, to incur and pay debts in respect of goods, services and other items for his own benefit (direct or indirect) and that of his family, but not to pay tax debts 2. Engaged in this conduct even though substantial amounts of disposable income that was available to him rendered it practicable for him to pay and provide for his tax liabilities in addition to meeting his living expenses and his other financial commitments. — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct by deliberately, over many years, prioritising the payment of personal and family debts over his tax liabilities, despite having sufficient disposable income to meet those tax obligations. The extract contains no express finding of dishonesty and does not state any sanction, fine, or costs.

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

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=e42d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e