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Rollinson, Michael Kelvyn

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionbarrister — Latham Chambers
Case number[2024] NSWCA 84
Date19-Apr-2024
HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal
OutcomeRemoval of lawyer’s name from the Roll of Australian lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. The barrister repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed injunctions preventing him from legal practice and advertising or representing that he was able to engage in legal practice 2. The barrister pleaded guilty and was found to have committed 16 counts of contempt for continuing to practise 3. The barrister committed 12 contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions — Not a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers

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

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed injunctions restraining him from legal practice and from advertising that he could practise. He pleaded guilty to and was found to have committed 16 counts of contempt for continuing to practise, and committed 12 contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions. He was found not to be a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers and was removed from the Roll. No express finding of dishonesty was recorded.

Duties found breached:

Aggravating factors:

  • Repeated and wilful disobedience of court injunctions
  • Multiple counts of contempt (16)
  • Multiple contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions (12)

Mitigating factors:

  • Pleaded guilty to the contempt charges

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=81846581-7177-4825-95df-7f2ffc51024e