Carlton Melbourne
Allegation / charges
Fined | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered October 27, 2018. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 199/2017 IN THE MATTER OF GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL (HILARY BEVERLEY REID) and CARLTON MELBOURNE an …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The respondent attorney Carlton Melbourne admitted to breaches of the Legal Profession (Accounts and Records) Regulations for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, contrary to sections 16(1) and 17. The Committee found these breaches amounted to professional misconduct under section 12(1)(a) of the Legal Profession Act. He was fined $30,000 for each of the three years (totalling $90,000) plus $30,000 costs, amounting to $120,000, which he paid on 24 December 2018.
Duties found breached:
Mitigating factors:
- Respondent admitted the breaches
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