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Ndou, Lovemore Ray

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionlawyer — Lovemore Lawyers

Case number[2023] NSWCATOD 111

Date28-Jul-2022

HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales

OutcomeFine Reprimand The Tribunal made an order varying the Committee’s disciplinary orders requiring Mr Ndou to complete a legal ethics course, by replacing it with an order requiring Mr Ndou to pay a fine in the sum of $2,000 within 60 days of the Tribunal’s decision $2,000.00 Appeal Status: Dismissed Appeal Decision

Allegation / charges

1. Breached a Local Court order made on 21 November 2019 by using information and/or document(s) produced in those proceedings in his client’s affidavit dated 12 December 2019 and filed in the Family Court (Local Court Orders Conduct); and 2. Breached the Harman Principle, as outlined in Harman v Secretary of State for the Home Department [1983] 1 AC 280, by using information and/or document(s) produced in the Local Court proceedings for a collateral purpose (Harman Principle Conduct) — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The solicitor was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct by breaching a Local Court order of 21 November 2019, using documents/information produced in those proceedings in a client's Family Court affidavit, and by breaching the Harman Principle through using that material for a collateral purpose. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=c8a3e4b1-92d4-49f3-b784-ab1bcfdf14ec