Rollinson, Michael Kelvyn
Allegation / charges
1. The barrister repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed injunctions preventing him from legal practice and advertising or representing that he was able to engage in legal practice 2. The barrister pleaded guilty and was found to have committed 16 counts of contempt for continuing to practise 3. The barrister committed 12 contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions — Not a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
A barrister repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed injunctions restraining him from legal practice and from advertising that he could practise. He pleaded guilty to and was found to have committed 16 counts of contempt for continuing to practise, and committed 12 contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions. He was found not to be a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers and was removed from the Roll. No express finding of dishonesty was recorded.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Repeated and wilful disobedience of court injunctions
- Multiple counts of contempt (16)
- Multiple contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions (12)
Mitigating factors:
- Pleaded guilty to the contempt charges
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=81846581-7177-4825-95df-7f2ffc51024e