Decision record
Thorpe, Terrance William
Allegation / charges
Ground 1: Breached Rule 62 of the Bar Rules when he failed to inform the defence representatives, or the Court: (a) of the fact that a key prosecution witness said at a witness conference, attended by the Respondent on 27/07/2009, words that were omitted from the typed conference notes, including the words "am registered informant" (b) of the fact that handwritten notes of the conference existed (c) of the fact that the typed version of the conference notes was an edited version of the handwritten notes (d) of the fact that the police had informed the DPP that the key prosecution witness was an informer for police Ground 2: Breached Rules 66 and 66A of the Barristers' Rules Ground 4: Misled or attempted to mislead his opponent Ground 5: Misled, or attempted to mislead the Court and/or the jury — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The respondent barrister was found to have committed professional misconduct by breaching Rule 62 (failing to disclose to the defence and court that a key prosecution witness was a registered police informant, that handwritten conference notes existed, and that typed notes were edited), breaching Rules 66 and 66A, and by misleading or attempting to mislead his opponent and the Court/jury. No express finding of dishonesty is recorded in the provided text, and no sanction or costs are stated.
Duties found breached:
- Not mislead the court
- Prosecutorial duty of disclosure
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- No conflict between current clients
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
⚠ 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=aa114d07-f5ec-4ef2-9e9c-26125a796550