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Sideris, George

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — George Sideris & Associates Lawyers
Case number[2025] NSWCA 159
Date18-Jul-2025
HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal
OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer’s name from the Roll of Australian lawyers Not a fit and proper person to remain on the Roll of Australian lawyers maintained by the Supreme Court of New South Wales, pursuant to s 22 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

In the course of legal practice the solicitor: sent correspondence directly to the client of another solicitor, in breach of rule 33 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015 (NSW) (Conduct Rules); and sent correspondence to the client of another solicitor, and to staff and representatives of another solicitor's client, which was discourteous contrary to rule 4.1.2 of the Conduct Rules

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The solicitor was found to have sent correspondence directly to the client of another solicitor in breach of rule 33, and to have sent discourteous correspondence to that client and to staff and representatives of another solicitor's client contrary to rule 4.1.2 of the Conduct Rules. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and the provided text does not state any sanction, fine or costs.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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