Smith, Mark Rodger
Allegation / charges
<ol><li>As at 5 February 2021, the Respondent Solicitor failed to pay the Complainant’s outstanding fees, in the amount of $11,825.00, despite having received monies from the client (on or about 18 December 2018) which were expressly designated for the payment of the Complainant’s fees.</li><li>The Respondent Solicitor has failed to respond to correspondence from the Complainant concerning payment of his outstanding fees.</li></ol> — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Respondent Solicitor, as at 5 February 2021, had not paid the Complainant's outstanding fees of $11,825.00 despite receiving client funds designated for that purpose, and failed to respond to correspondence about payment. This was found to constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no sanction was stated in the provided 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=a69e7bd1-30fa-4f0a-b535-f4fc77b23567