Abdul-Karim, Michael Saadey

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister

Case number[2003] NSWADT 60

Date17-Jun-2003

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeCosts Undertake course of education including Bar Exams $0.00 Appeal Status: Withdrawn Appeal Decision

Allegation / charges

The Tribunal found Abdul-Karim guilty on two counts of professional misconduct in that1. The description attributed by Abdul-Karim to a caveatable interest lodged on behalf of a client, at least to the extent of the claimed trust, was false2. Abdul-Karim referred in the Caveat to an appeal, when he had no knowledge that any such appeal had been brought — Common Law Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The Tribunal found Abdul-Karim guilty of two counts of common law professional misconduct: falsely describing a caveatable interest lodged for a client (as regards the claimed trust) and referring in the Caveat to an appeal without knowledge that any such appeal existed. No express finding of dishonesty was made in the provided text, and no sanction is stated.

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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