Warren Lance ROSEN

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

Solicitor Warren Lance Rosen appeared for an applicant mother in an ex parte Magistrates Court application concerning child contact and failed to disclose to the Court numerous material facts within his knowledge, including correspondence from the father's solicitors denying the allegations and proposing supervised contact. QCAT found this breached Rule 19.4 of the Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules and categorised the conduct as professional misconduct, noting it verged on misleading the Court. No express finding of dishonesty was made. He was publicly reprimanded, fined $5,500, ordered to undertake a remedial ethics course, and to pay costs on the Supreme Court Scale.

Duties found breached:

• Full disclosure on ex parte applications
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Fundamental and onerous nature of the duty of full and frank disclosure in ex parte applications
• Conduct verged upon misleading the Court
• Lack of comprehension of his duties despite being an Accredited Family Law Specialist
• Failed to answer fulsomely when directly asked by the Magistrate whether the father was aware of the application

Mitigating factors:

• Filed an agreed statement of facts and did not dispute the underlying facts
• Tribunal did not consider him unfit to be a legal practitioner