Doherty, Peter John
Allegation / charges
1. Breach Section 255 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money<BR/>2. Misappropriation of trust monies<BR/>3. Knowingly mislead the client<BR/>4. Unreasonable delay<BR/>5. Failure to account<BR/>6. Acted in conflict of interest and preferred own interest to those of his client.<BR/>7. Breach Rule 12 Legal Profession Conduct & Practice Rules<BR/>8. Breach section 67(2)(a) of the Legal Profession Act 2004 — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The text sets out a list of alleged breaches against a legal practitioner including breach of section 255 of the Legal Profession Act 2004, misappropriation of trust monies, knowingly misleading the client, unreasonable delay, failure to account, conflict of interest, breach of Rule 12 of the Conduct & Practice Rules, and professional misconduct under section 67(2)(a). No express tribunal findings or sanctions are stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Not mislead the court
- Avoid wasting the court's time
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- No own-interest conflict
- No conflict between current clients
- No improper use of client money
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
⚠ 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=8a5ca7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e