PATRICK EDWARD MULLALLY
JurisdictionAustralia — Western Australia
BodyLegal Practice Board of Western Australia (LPBWA)
Professionlawyer — Suite 6 300 Rokeby Road SUBIACO WA 6008
Case numberRe A Practitioner [2001] WASCA 154
Date2 May 2001
HearingSupreme Court of WA
OutcomeStruck Off the Roll of Practitioners
Allegation / charges
Struck Off the Roll of Practitioners
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundYes
The practitioner, admitted in 1974 and suspended since 1994, was found guilty of illegal conduct by the Disciplinary Tribunal in two references arising from criminal convictions: obtaining $19,000 by false pretences (selling a leased road grader he did not own) and stealing $26,678.23 of trust moneys applied to his own use. The Full Court held the conduct was inherently dishonest and gravely breached professional standards, and that protection of the public and reputation of the profession required removal. The practitioner was struck off the Roll.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Two separate convictions on indictment with significant terms of imprisonment
- More recent offence involved misappropriation of trust moneys held in course of legal practice
- Others suffered financial loss
- Conduct inherently dishonest
Mitigating factors:
- No particular matters in mitigation placed before the Court