Hart, John Peter
Allegation / charges
1. Failed to promptly or within a reasonable time return to a client money paid in advance where demand was made for its return<BR/>2. Failed to provide a cost disclosure to a client upon receipt of instructions to act on her behalf, contrary to the requirements of Section 309 of the Legal Profession Act 2004<BR/>3. Accepted instructions from a client directly (she being a person who is not a solicitor or a professional acting as such) without making disclosure in accordance with Rule 80 of the NSW Barristers? Rules — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
A barrister was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for failing to promptly return advance money on demand, failing to provide a required cost disclosure under s309 of the Legal Profession Act 2004, and accepting direct instructions from a non-solicitor client without disclosure required by Rule 80 of the NSW Barristers' Rules. No dishonesty was found and no sanction is 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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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=922d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e