Serman, Malcolm
Allegation / charges
1. The solicitor made a statutory declaration which he knew or ought to have known contained false statements. 2. The solicitor lodged an extinguishment application on behalf of his clients which he knew or ought to have known had no proper basis. 3. The solicitor failed to respond to proper requests for information. 4. The solicitor provided misleading information and failed to provide proper responses to correspondence. — A reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The decision addresses a solicitor whose conduct—making a statutory declaration containing false statements, lodging a baseless extinguishment application, failing to respond to requests for information, and providing misleading information—was assessed as presenting a reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no sanction is stated in the 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=e95aa7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e