Decision record

Sahade, Marcel Victor

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister — Sydney Chambers

Case number[2005] NSWADT 159

Date13-Jul-2005

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeCosts Fine Reprimand 08/02/2006 Disciplinary Action) $10,000.00

Allegation / charges

1. In July and August 1999 Marcel Victor Sahade lodged 353 applications to pre-register for shares in the so-called ?Telstra 2 Share Offer? using dishonest tricks and devices for the purpose of concealing the fact that the applications were multiple applications by a single person, in circumstances where he believed the policy of the Commonwealth would be likely to be to reject multiple applications for pre-registration from the same person. 2. Between about 17 and 19 September 1999, Marcel Victor Sahade lodged 215 applications, each for 400 shares in the ?Telstra 2 Share Offer?, as a pre-registered public applicant, using dishonest tricks and devices for the purpose of concealing the fact that the applications were multiple applications by a single person. — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundYes

Marcel Victor Sahade was found to have engaged in professional misconduct by lodging multiple applications (353 pre-registration and 215 share applications) for the Telstra 2 Share Offer in 1999 using dishonest tricks and devices to conceal that they were multiple applications from a single person. Dishonesty was expressly found; the excerpt provided does not state the sanction, costs or fine imposed.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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