Harkin, David John
Allegation / charges
<p>1. Practise without a current Practising Certificate</p><p>2. Failure to provide direct access disclosure, as required by the Barristers Rules 2011, to clients</p><p>3. Failure to provide costs disclosure</p><p>4. Non-compliance with trust money provisions</p><p>5. Practise without current Professional Indemnity cover</p><p>6. Lack of candour and cooperartion in dealings with Regulator</p> — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The barrister was found guilty of professional misconduct arising from six matters: practising without a current practising certificate, failing to provide direct access disclosure and costs disclosure, non-compliance with trust money provisions, practising without professional indemnity cover, and a lack of candour and cooperation with the Regulator. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Disclose adverse law to the court
- Costs and fee transparency to client
- No improper use of client money
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Hold a current practising certificate
- Cooperate openly with regulators
⚠ 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=9a2d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e