Kirby, Neil Jarrad
Allegation / charges
1. The solicitor certified the execution of an Enduring Power of Attorney and an Enduring Guardianship where he:<BR/> (a) Failed to provide any, or adequate, explanation of the effect of those documents prior to the donor of the power signing; and<BR/> (b) Failed to take adequate steps to satisfy himself that the donor understood the effect of the documents<BR/>2. The solicitor sent to the donor's representative an email that was incorrect and failed to correct the email subsequently — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The solicitor was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for certifying the execution of an Enduring Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship without adequately explaining the documents' effect or ensuring the donor understood them, and for sending an incorrect email to the donor's representative that he failed to correct. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no sanction is specified in the provided text.
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=e859a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e