Decision record
Farr (nee Tangney), Clare Catherine Mary
Allegation / charges
1. Failure to communicate 2. Failure to provide documents 3. Gross delay 4. Knowingly swore a false statutory declaration 5. Misled or attempted to mislead the Law Society 6. Hindered, obstructed or delayed the Investigator 7. Failure to transfer file upon receipt of a signed authority 8. Failure to account 9. Gross delay in submitting a memorandum of costs and accounting to client 10. Delay in finalisnig her trust account 11. Failure to provide detailed account and report on settlement 12. Failure to communicate 13. Failure to complete retainer — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct comprising multiple failures including failure to communicate, provide documents, account and complete a retainer, gross delays, hindering the Law Society investigator, and knowingly swearing a false statutory declaration as well as misleading or attempting to mislead the Law Society. No sanction details are stated in the provided text.
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