Decision record
van Langenberg, Carmeline Elaine
Allegation / charges
The Solicitor sent intimidating correspondence in breach of Rule 34 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules. The Solicitor breached Rule 25 of the Solicitors' Rules by conferring with more than one lay witness at the same time about issues which there were reasonable grounds for her to believe would be contentious at a hearing and where such conferral could affect the evidence to be given by any of those witnesses. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitor was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for sending intimidating correspondence in breach of Rule 34 and for conferring with more than one lay witness simultaneously about contentious issues in breach of Rule 25. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no specific sanction is stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
No documents recorded.
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=e3f95b35-9888-43a1-be1b-ef5614b2185a