Decision record
Henry, Catherine Anne
Allegation / charges
On or about 16 December 2019, the Respondent Solicitor made false statements about the status of funds relating to the matter in which the Complainant (a barrister) had been engaged on behalf of the Respondent Solicitor’s client in written correspondence to the NSW Bar Association knowing the statements to be false. As at 22 January 2020, the Respondent Solicitor failed to pay a third party (the barrister) the amount of $57,166.70 for services rendered to the Respondent Solicitor’s client and accrued interest for non-payment of fees. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Respondent Solicitor made knowingly false statements to the NSW Bar Association about the status of funds and failed to pay a barrister $57,166.70 for services rendered plus accrued interest. Found to constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct.
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=cc78320e-b77b-4455-b90c-36726ba0ff80