Brooks, David George
Allegation / charges
<p>1. Knowingly concealed from “A”, a person, and his legal representative (a fellow legal practitioner) the true payment price in a contract between his client and various companies associated with his client and the liquidators of a group of Companies.</p><p>2. Intentionally misled and deceived “A” and his legal representative by altering the payment price and other elements of various draft contracts and other documents and forwarding them to “A”s legal representatives, fraudulently representing them to be the genuine draft contracts or other documents sent to the Solicitor by the solicitors for the liquidators, or sent by the Solicitor to those solicitors.</p><p>3. Knowingly and fraudulently made false representations to “A” and his legal representative with the intention that “A” would rely upon those representations as to the payment price in, and other elements of, the contracts, between the Solicitor’s client and various companies associated with his client and the liquidators of a group of Companies.</p> — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The solicitor was found to have committed professional misconduct by knowingly concealing the true payment price in contracts between his client and liquidators from a third party ('A') and his legal representative, altering documents, and fraudulently making false representations intending 'A' to rely on them. The tribunal made express findings of fraudulent/dishonest conduct. No sanction, fine, or costs are stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Proper basis for allegations
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- No direct dealing with represented party
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=df5ba7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e