Weller, Herbert Hugo
Allegation / charges
1. Preparing the following documents without obtaining a medical opinion as to whether the client lacked capacity: Revocation of a power of attorney, an enduring power of attorney and an appointment of enduring guardian 2. Failure to act competently and diligently in the preparation and execution of a revocation of a power of attorney, an enduring power of attorney and an appointment of enduring guardian by an aged client who lacked capacity 3. Failure to maintain reasonable standards of competence and diligence — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner prepared and executed a revocation of a power of attorney, an enduring power of attorney and an appointment of enduring guardian for an aged client who lacked capacity, without first obtaining a medical opinion on capacity, and failed to act competently and diligently. This conduct was found to constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct. No dishonesty was found.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=bd3ccceb-86ac-4467-bbaf-3018d66b0ff1