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Archer, Stephen John

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionbarrister
Case number[2009] NSWADT 283
Date13-Nov-2009
HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers (09//04/2010 Disciplinary Action) $0.00

Allegation / charges

1. Deliberately chose, during a significant number of years, to incur and pay debts in respect of goods, services and other items for his own benefit (direct or indirect) and that of his family, but not to pay tax debts 2. Engaged in this conduct even though substantial amounts of disposable income that was available to him rendered it practicable for him to pay and provide for his tax liabilities in addition to meeting his living expenses and his other financial commitments. — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The tribunal found professional misconduct in that the practitioner deliberately, over a significant number of years, chose to incur and pay debts for goods, services and other items benefiting himself and his family, while failing to pay his tax debts, even though he had substantial disposable income that would have made paying his tax liabilities practicable. No express finding of dishonesty is recorded and no sanction is specified in the text provided.

Duties found breached:

Aggravating factors:

  • Conduct occurred over a significant number of years
  • Deliberate choice to prioritise personal/family expenditure over tax obligations
  • Substantial disposable income made payment of tax practicable

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=e42d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e