Decision record

Madden, Philip Macdonald

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Maddens Lawyers

Case number[2008] NSWADT 210

Date31-Jul-2008

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeConditions on Practising Certificate Costs Fine Reprimand Suspension of Practising Certificate for a period of 12 months from 31 July 2008 $7,500.00

Allegation / charges

1. Failure to account to client for money received by client 2. False statement in a cross claim (x2) 3. Commencing a cross claim whilst proving unable to establish that claim 4. False statement in correspondence with another solicitor (x2) 5. False statement in a Notice of Grounds of defence 6. Attempting to mislead the Court 7. Breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys 8. Misappropriation of client money — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The text lists a series of charges against a solicitor including failure to account for client money, multiple false statements in court documents and correspondence, attempting to mislead the court, breach of trust money handling rules under s61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987, and misappropriation of client money amounting to professional misconduct. No express findings, dishonesty determination, or sanction details are contained in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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