Decision record

Mee Ling, Adrian

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Mee Ling Solicitors

Date12-Feb-2003

HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales

OutcomeStatutory suspension of Practising Certificate $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

Disclosures of an act of bankruptcy and tax offences. On Thursday, 12 February 2003 the Council of the Law Society of New South Wales noted that it had not been able to make a determination for the purposes of Section 38FC of the Legal Profession Act, 1987, with respect to the notifications made by Adrian Mee Ling. The Law Society Council further noted on that date that an indefinite statutory suspension of the practising certificate of Adrian Mee Ling followed in accordance with the provisions of Section 38FH of the Legal Profession Act, 1987, from midnight on Tuesday, 11 February 2003. The Council of the Law Society further noted that Section 38FG(2) of the Legal Profession Act, 1987 requires the Legal Services Commissioner to take over the determination of the matter when a statutory suspension of a practising certificate arises. The Legal Services Commissioner will now make a determination pursuant to his powers contained within Division 1AA, Part 3 of the Legal Profession Act, 1987.

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

SanctionSuspension

Dishonesty foundNo

The Council of the Law Society of NSW was unable to make a determination under Section 38FC regarding Adrian Mee Ling's notifications of an act of bankruptcy and tax offences. As a result, an indefinite statutory suspension of the practising certificate took effect from midnight 11 February 2003 under Section 38FH. The Legal Services Commissioner will take over the determination under Section 38FG(2).

Duties found breached:

Self-report to the regulator

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

Duties engaged

Self-report to the regulator

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=b959a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e