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Hammond, Misha Nicholas

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionbarrister — 4th Floor Wentworth Chambers
Date10-Aug-2017
HearingCouncil of The New South Wales Bar Association
OutcomeImpose conditions on Practising Certificate Reprimand $0.00 About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Did not provide evidence of completion of his reading requirements</p><p>2. Provided false or misleading information to the Bar Association about the status of his completion of his civil and criminal reading</p><p>3. Did not comply with conditions imposed on his practising certfiicate in the period from 1 December 2013 to 30 June 2016 to obtain written permission from his tutors for unled court appearances</p> — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct for failing to provide evidence of completing his reading requirements, providing false or misleading information to the Bar Association about his civil and criminal reading, and failing to comply with practising certificate conditions requiring tutor permission for unled court appearances. Although false/misleading information was provided, no express finding of dishonesty is recorded in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=5c2e510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e