Decision record

Kernaghan, Aaron Noel

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Kernaghan & Associates Pty Ltd

Case number[2022] NSWCATOD 64

Date20-Jun-2022

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Reprimand Solicitor to undertake and complete further legal education Employment and medical conditions imposed on the Solicitor’s practising certificate $0.00

Allegation / charges

Professional Misconduct Failed to honour an undertaking Committing various trust monies breaches concerning multiple clients and events between December 2015 and July 2016 Failed to answer a s 370 Notice Failed over a lengthy period to meet his practice’s fiscal obligations, namely with respect to superannuation and taxation Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct Failed to comply with costs disclosure obligations Failed to pay a tax invoice of an expert — Professional Misconduct 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 professional misconduct (failing to honour an undertaking, committing multiple trust monies breaches involving multiple clients between December 2015 and July 2016, failing to answer a s 370 Notice, and failing over a lengthy period to meet fiscal obligations regarding superannuation and taxation) and unsatisfactory professional conduct (failing to comply with costs disclosure obligations and failing to pay an expert's tax invoice). No express finding of dishonesty was made, and no sanction details were provided in the text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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