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Flynn, Mark Joseph

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — (Formerly) Mark Flynn & Associates Pty Ltd
Case number[2013] NSWADT 70
Date03-Apr-2013
HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

Professional Misconduct: 1. Produced false trust account records 2. Breached his written undertaking 3. Attempted to mislead client's former solicitor 4. Failed to comply with undertaking dated 8 December 2008 5. Communicated with another solicitor's client 6. Harassing former client 7. Improper conduct 8. Failure to comply with Section 660 Notice 9. Attempt to intervene and undermine solicitor/client relationship 10. Appending a signature of a person on a statutory declaration and in doing so, purporting to have signed his signature before that person Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct: 11. Mislead or attempt to mislead the Local Court of NSW 12. Endeavouring to charge for items not permitted by workers compensation legislation 13. Failure to transfer file 14. Failure to disclose costs — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The text lists findings of professional misconduct (items 1-10) including producing false trust account records, breaching undertakings, misleading a former solicitor, harassing a former client, non-compliance with a Section 660 Notice, and falsely appending a signature on a statutory declaration, as well as unsatisfactory professional conduct (items 11-14) including misleading the Local Court of NSW, improper charging under workers compensation legislation, failure to transfer a file, and failure to disclose costs. No express dishonesty finding, sanction, fine, or costs are stated in the provided extract.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=5759a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e