Decision record

Nguyen, Mai Anh

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Empower Legal Pty Ltd

Date17-Apr-2025

HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales

OutcomeRefusal of grant of practising certificate $0.00 Disciplinary Action

Allegation / charges

1. Engaged in legal practice between December 2021 and May 2024 without an Australian Practising Certificate, in contravention of the Legal Profession Uniform Law NSW (Uniform Law) and failed to disclose this in her Application for an Australian Practising Certificate. 2. Failed to comply with a Notice pursuant to s371 of the Uniform Law for more than 6 years. — The Australian lawyer is not a fit and proper person to hold a practising certificate.

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The lawyer engaged in legal practice without a current Australian Practising Certificate between December 2021 and May 2024, failed to disclose this in her practising certificate application, and failed to comply with a s371 Uniform Law notice for over six years. The Tribunal concluded she is not a fit and proper person to hold a practising certificate. No express finding of dishonesty is recorded and no specific penalty (fine or costs) is stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=57ed4e76-02c5-4ff7-ae83-4f5acb7f5ac1