Angelovski, Lupco Vanchov
Allegation / charges
1. Failed to attend court to instruct Counsel when instructed to do so and when in receipt of a grant of Legal Aid to so attend<BR/>2. Failed to act in accordance with Legal Aid Practice Standards<BR/>3. Recklessly misled the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner<BR/>4. Failed to act competently and/or diligently<BR/>5. Misled clients in relation to the status and progress of their matters (x3)<BR/>6. Delayed the progress of a client's workers compensation matter<BR/>7. Gross negligence<BR/>8. Failed to act in accordance with a client's instructions<BR/>9. Failed to comply with undertakings to the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner<BR/>10. Gross delay — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct arising from failures including not attending court to instruct Counsel while holding Legal Aid, breaching Legal Aid Practice Standards, recklessly misleading the OLSC, incompetence and lack of diligence, misleading three clients about their matters, delaying a workers compensation matter, gross negligence, failing to follow instructions, breaching undertakings to the OLSC, and gross delay. Dishonesty was not expressly found (the misleading of the OLSC was characterised as reckless). No sanction, fine or costs order is stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Not mislead the court
- Avoid wasting the court's time
- No improper communication with the court
- No taking unfair advantage
- Act only on proper, lawful instructions
- Keep client informed and respond promptly
- No conflict between current clients
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=ba5fa7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e