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Gray, Ventry Rollo Wakefield

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionbarrister — 13th Floor St James Hall
Date26-Mar-2020
HearingCouncil of The New South Wales Bar Association
OutcomeReprimand $0.00 About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

<p>1: Breached Rule 101(h) of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules - Briefs which must be refused or must be returned - for the recovery of costs from former client</p><p>2: Breached Rule 101(g) of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules - Briefs which must be refused or must be returned -where the barrister has a material financial or property interest in the outcome of the case, apart from the prospect of a fee</p> — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct by breaching Rules 101(h) and 101(g) of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules, relating to accepting/retaining briefs that must be refused or returned - namely for the recovery of costs from a former client and where the barrister had a material financial or property interest in the outcome apart from a fee. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=5b2d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e