Decision record
Smith, Mark Rodger
Allegation / charges
As at 5 February 2021, the Respondent Solicitor failed to pay the Complainant’s outstanding fees, in the amount of $11,825.00, despite having received monies from the client (on or about 18 December 2018) which were expressly designated for the payment of the Complainant’s fees. The Respondent Solicitor has failed to respond to correspondence from the Complainant concerning payment of his outstanding fees. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Respondent Solicitor, as at 5 February 2021, failed to pay the Complainant's outstanding fees of $11,825.00 despite having received monies (around 18 December 2018) expressly designated for those fees, and failed to respond to related correspondence. This was found to be Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct, with no express finding of dishonesty.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
No documents recorded.
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=a69e7bd1-30fa-4f0a-b535-f4fc77b23567