Craig Selwyn Lee JENSEN

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

Dr Jensen, a solicitor, pursued a baseless $20,000 defamation/aggravated damages claim against an opposing party and his solicitor, ignoring the statutory immunity in s 487 LPA. He sent discourteous and intimidatory letters, made a non-bona fide complaint against the opposing solicitor, and sent aggressive, offensive correspondence to the Legal Services Commissioner while refusing to cooperate with the inquiry. QCAT found all four charges established as professional misconduct. Given his complete lack of remorse, insight, and his declaration he would repeat the conduct, the Tribunal found he was not a fit and proper person with no reasonable prospect of becoming one, and ordered his name removed from the Roll of Solicitors. Costs were deferred for further submissions. No express finding of dishonesty was made (conduct was characterised as reckless).

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Lack of remorse or insight; stated he would act the same way again
• Reckless assertion of indefensible legal propositions
• Intransigent defiance of and refusal to cooperate with the Commissioner
• Repeated professional discourtesy and intimidatory conduct
• Failure to withdraw claims even after attention drawn to s 487 LPA
• Threat to seek costs against and censure the investigating officer