Mee Ling, Paul Adrian
Allegation / charges
Application no. 102024: 1. Failure to comply with undertaking 2. Failure to comply with condition on practising certificate 3. Failure to respond to the Society’s correspondence Application no. 102025: 1. Failure to pay the complainant’s [Counsel’s] fees 2. Without reasonable excuse, failed to comply with a requirement under Section 660 of the Legal Profession Act, 2004 3. Failed to assist the Law Society with the investigation of a complaint 4. Failure to respond to complainant’s communications Amended Applications in 102024 & 102025: 1. The Solicitor has failed to comply with an Order of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal 2. The Solicitor attempted to mislead the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Application no. 112033: 1. Breach of Rules 32 & 33 of the Professional Conduct & Practice Rules 2. Breach of Sections 254 & 260 of the Legal Profession Act, 2004 3. Failure to respond to complainant’s [Counsel’s] correspondence — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The provided text lists charges across four applications (102024, 102025, amended applications, and 112033) against a solicitor, characterised as professional misconduct. Allegations include failures to comply with undertakings, practising certificate conditions, tribunal orders, payment of counsel's fees, and responding to correspondence, plus an allegation of attempting to mislead the Administrative Decisions Tribunal. The text does not set out tribunal findings, whether dishonesty was expressly found, or any sanction, fine, or costs.
Duties found breached:
- No improper communication with the court
- Advise on alternatives, settlement and outcome
- No conflict between current clients
- Hold a current practising certificate
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
- Honour professional undertakings
- Pay instructed practitioners and agents
- Not misrepresent regulated status
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
- Not mislead the court
- No improper communication with the court
- Comply with and respect court orders
- Advise on alternatives, settlement and outcome
- No conflict between current clients
- Hold a current practising certificate
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
- Honour professional undertakings
- Pay instructed practitioners and agents
- Not misrepresent regulated status
Other decisions involving this respondent
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Documents
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=fd5aa7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e