Decision record
Winter, Ronald William
Allegation / charges
1. Pursuing recovery of Court ordered costs on behalf of a company, and representing to the self represented opponent that he was purporting to act as solicitor for the company, at a time and in circumstances where he both ought to have known the company?s registration was in jeopardy and failed to take steps to ensure that the company continued to exist as a legal entity, and where he ought to have known he did not have valid instructions to act on behalf of the company. 2. Knowingly making a false statement to the opponent, in breach of Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors? Conduct Rules 2015, r22.1. 3. Recklessly misleading the Court, in breach of Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors? Conduct Rules 2015, r19.1. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct Professional Misconduct - Ground 2 and cumulatively
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The solicitor was found to have pursued costs recovery on behalf of a company he ought to have known lacked proper registration and valid instructions, knowingly made a false statement to a self-represented opponent (breach of r22.1), and recklessly misled the Court (breach of r19.1). Ground 2 and the conduct cumulatively amounted to professional misconduct, with other conduct being unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are contained in the provided text.
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=555ea7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e