Joukhador, Marcel
Allegation / charges
1. Communicating directly with the complainant solicitor's client.<BR/>2. Failure to respond to the complainant solicitor's requests.<BR/>3. Unethical conduct:-(a) failure to advise the complainant solicitor that the solicitor's account had been sent directly to the complainant solicitor's client.(b) unreasonably demanding payment of costs and disbursements from the complainant solicitor's client.<BR/>4. Misleading in advising that the complainant solicitor's client had approached the solicitor. — A reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The solicitor faced allegations including communicating directly with another solicitor's client, failing to respond to requests, unethical conduct in relation to sending accounts directly to and demanding payment from the other solicitor's client, and misleading conduct. The determination was that there was a reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction stated in the text.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
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Documents
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=ff59a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e