Decision record

Ford, Christopher John

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Ford Criminal Lawyers

Date09-Jul-2026

HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales

OutcomeLawyer to undertake and complete further legal education Reprimand Recommendations for imposition of conditions on practising certificate requiring the Solicitor to engage the services of an external bookkeeper and comply with reporting requirements concerning specified work to be undertaken by that bookkeeper $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

Failed to comply with costs disclosure obligations under ss 174, 175 and 176 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) (Uniform Law) Failed to comply with obligations and requirements under ss 136, 137, 138, 146 and 147 of the Uniform Law and rr 36(1) and 36(4) of the Legal Profession Uniform General Rules 2015 in relation to his handling of, and accounting for, trust money — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for failing to comply with costs disclosure obligations (ss 174-176) and trust money handling/accounting obligations under the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) and associated General Rules. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and the provided text does not state a specific sanction.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=9370a65b-8e37-449a-9181-3c8b258d7694