Cantle, Beverley Anne
Allegation / charges
1. Certifying copies of a Power of Attorney (POA) as a true and correct copy of the original document without sighting the original<BR/>2. Certifying copies of an Enduring Guardianship form as a true and correct copy of the original document without sighting the original<BR/>3. Using a certified copy of Enduring Guardianship form to obtain medical records<BR/>4. Attempting to use the certified copies of POA and certified copies of Enduring Guardianship form to obtain (i) medical records and (ii) financial information — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner certified copies of a Power of Attorney and an Enduring Guardianship form as true and correct copies of the originals without having sighted the original documents, then used and attempted to use those certified copies to obtain medical records and financial information. This conduct was found to amount to Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and no specific sanction, fine, or costs order is set out in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Advise objectively, not a mere conduit
- Continuity and handover of representation
- Handle inadvertently received material
⚠ 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=7b5ea7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e