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Kernaghan, Aaron Noel

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Kernaghan & Associates Pty Ltd
Case number[2022] NSWCATOD 64
Date20-Jun-2022
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Reprimand Solicitor to undertake and complete further legal education Employment and medical conditions imposed on the Solicitor’s practising certificate $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>Professional Misconduct</p><ol><li><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">Failed to honour an undertaking</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">Committing various trust monies breaches concerning multiple clients and events between December 2015 and July 2016</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">Failed to answer a s 370 Notice</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">Failed over a lengthy period to meet his practice’s fiscal obligations, namely with respect to superannuation and taxation</span></li></ol><p><br></p><p>Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct</p><ol><li>F<span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">ailed to comply with costs disclosure obligations </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">Failed to pay a tax invoice of an expert&nbsp;</span></li></ol> — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to honour an undertaking, committing multiple trust money breaches (Dec 2015–Jul 2016), failing to answer a s 370 Notice, and failing over a lengthy period to meet superannuation and taxation obligations. He was also found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for failing to comply with costs disclosure obligations and failing to pay an expert's tax invoice. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction or costs were 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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