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Dupree, James Robert

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionbarrister — Balmain Chambers
Date09-Mar-2017
HearingCouncil of The New South Wales Bar Association
OutcomeReprimand $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. Breach of duty to assist court to facilitate the just, quick and cheap resolution of the real issues of the case</p><p>2. Prepared written submissions which fell short of the standard of competence and diligence required of a barrister</p><p>3. Breached Rule 8 of the Barristers Rules by raising issues which were without substance and were likely to diminish public confidence in the legal profession or the administration of justice or otherwise bring the legal profession into disrepute</p> — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister was found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct for breaching the duty to assist the court, preparing incompetent written submissions, and raising issues without substance in breach of Rule 8 of the Barristers Rules. No dishonesty was found and no specific 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

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=d12d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e