Speirs, Kristy Anne
Allegation / charges
<ol><li>The Respondent Solicitor misled or attempted to mislead a Police Sergeant by sending to the Police Sergeant an email that indicated a report seeking authority to obtain an induced statement was with the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions when it was not.</li><li>The Respondent Solicitor misled or attempted to mislead a Detective Senior Constable by sending an email to the Detective Senior Constable that indicated a decision to withdraw a charge was made by the Crown and that a copy of the ‘actual direction’ would be provided when no such direction had been sought or given.</li></ol> — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Respondent Solicitor was found to have engaged in Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct for sending two misleading emails to police officers: one falsely indicating a report seeking authority for an induced statement was with the DPP chambers, and another falsely indicating a charge withdrawal decision was made by the Crown with a direction that could be provided. The tribunal characterised this as misleading/attempting to mislead but did not make an express finding of dishonesty, and no sanction details are stated in the text provided.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=32822c9b-c6f3-4bac-a3c8-1fb3ba7ffcd4