McDonald, Geoffrey David

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister — Ninth Floor Windeyer Chambers

Case number[2019] NSWCATOD 127

Date22-Aug-2019

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Reprimand Make a formal written apology $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Failed to give proper consideration to the effect, or possible effect, on the recipient of an email sent to the complainant2. Drafted and entered into an agreement to the effect that the complainant had no complaint about him before he would release the file held3. Deployed a Notice of Listing he had received from the Supreme Court in correspondence with the complainant in an inappropriate manner — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to consider the effect of an email on the complainant, drafting and entering into an agreement requiring the complainant to have no complaint before releasing the file, and inappropriately deploying a Supreme Court Notice of Listing in correspondence. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no sanction is stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=6c2d510a-b733-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e