Decision record

Rollinson, Michael Kelvyn

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister — Latham Chambers

Case number[2024] NSWCA 84

Date19-Apr-2024

HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal

OutcomeRemoval of lawyer’s name from the Roll of Australian lawyers $0.00

Allegation / charges

1. The barrister repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed injunctions preventing him from legal practice and advertising or representing that he was able to engage in legal practice 2. The barrister pleaded guilty and was found to have committed 16 counts of contempt for continuing to practise 3. The barrister committed 12 contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions — Not a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers

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

SanctionStrike Off

Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister repeatedly and wilfully disobeyed injunctions barring him from legal practice and from advertising or representing that he could engage in legal practice. He pleaded guilty and was found to have committed 16 counts of contempt for continuing to practise, and committed 12 contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions. He was found not to be a fit and proper person to remain on the Supreme Court Roll of Australian lawyers and was struck off.

Duties found breached:

Aggravating factors:

Repeated and wilful disobedience of court injunctions
Continued to practise despite orders prohibiting it
Multiple contraventions of suspended imprisonment conditions

Mitigating factors:

Pleaded guilty to the contempt charges

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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