Keith Nicholas Linedale Sullivan

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

Keith Nicholas Linedale Sullivan, a solicitor employed at McInnes Wilson practising in medical negligence, dishonestly arranged for forged invoices from a fictitious speech pathologist and false invoices from his wife's business (Medical Chronology) to be paid into his wife's account for work not done, and failed to disclose the conflict of interest. The Tribunal found him guilty of professional misconduct on all three charges, expressly finding dishonesty. He did not appear or contest. QCAT recommended his name be removed from the roll and ordered him to pay the applicant's costs on a Supreme Court basis.

Duties found breached:

• Honesty
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Protracted conduct occurring over an extended period (2011-2014)
• Numerous separate dishonest transactions, not isolated incidents
• Conduct did not cease until detected
• Effectively an extended fraud on employer firm and clients
• Significant financial benefit reaped for his wife (large sums diverted)