Decision record

Walker, Brian David

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionbarrister — Clarence Chambers

Date21-Aug-2025

HearingCouncil of The New South Wales Bar Association

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Allegation / charges

In the course of Mr Walker acting for a direct access client he: directed the client to pay and accepted his legal fees in advance of performing the legal work and did so contrary to the requirements of cl 15(2) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulations 2015 (LPULAR) returned his brief to the client without any explanation as to why he did so procured invoices to be issued to the client in respect of work done by him, by an entity other than himself — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister acting for a direct access client was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct by taking fees in advance contrary to cl 15(2) LPULAR, returning his brief without explanation, and having invoices for his work issued by another entity.

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=20089304-f76f-4d69-9b2c-0cc2d0ace72c