Decision record
Brooks, David George
Allegation / charges
1. Knowingly concealed from “A”, a person, and his legal representative (a fellow legal practitioner) the true payment price in a contract between his client and various companies associated with his client and the liquidators of a group of Companies. 2. Intentionally misled and deceived “A” and his legal representative by altering the payment price and other elements of various draft contracts and other documents and forwarding them to “A”s legal representatives, fraudulently representing them to be the genuine draft contracts or other documents sent to the Solicitor by the solicitors for the liquidators, or sent by the Solicitor to those solicitors. 3. Knowingly and fraudulently made false representations to “A” and his legal representative with the intention that “A” would rely upon those representations as to the payment price in, and other elements of, the contracts, between the Solicitor’s client and various companies associated with his client and the liquidators of a group of Companies. — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The solicitor was found guilty of professional misconduct for concealing the true contract payment price, altering draft contracts and documents to deceive a third party and his legal representative, and knowingly making fraudulent false representations intended to be relied upon. The conduct was expressly characterised as fraudulent and deceptive, amounting to dishonesty. The provided text does not state the sanction imposed.
Duties found breached:
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Duties engaged
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=df5ba7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e