Decision record
Flynn, Mark Joseph
Allegation / charges
Professional Misconduct: 1. Produced false trust account records 2. Breached his written undertaking 3. Attempted to mislead client's former solicitor 4. Failed to comply with undertaking dated 8 December 2008 5. Communicated with another solicitor's client 6. Harassing former client 7. Improper conduct 8. Failure to comply with Section 660 Notice 9. Attempt to intervene and undermine solicitor/client relationship 10. Appending a signature of a person on a statutory declaration and in doing so, purporting to have signed his signature before that person Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct: 11. Mislead or attempt to mislead the Local Court of NSW 12. Endeavouring to charge for items not permitted by workers compensation legislation 13. Failure to transfer file 14. Failure to disclose costs — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct (items 1-10) including producing false trust account records, breaching undertakings, attempting to mislead a former solicitor and the Local Court, harassment, failing to comply with a Section 660 Notice, and improperly appending another person's signature to a statutory declaration. He was also found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct (items 11-14) including misleading the Local Court, improper charging under workers compensation legislation, failure to transfer a file, and failure to disclose costs. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction, fine, or costs are stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Not mislead the court
- Proper basis for allegations
- No improper communication with the court
- Act in the client's best interests
- No conflict between current clients
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Honour professional undertakings
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
- Not mislead the court
- Proper basis for allegations
- No improper communication with the court
- No direct dealing with represented party
- No unlawful discrimination or harassment
- Act in the client's best interests
- No conflict between current clients
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Honour professional undertakings
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Documents
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=5759a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e