Decision record
Van Aalst, Julian Samuel
Allegation / charges
In October 2012 Mr Van Aalst asked his instructing solicitor to sign a costs agreement that was backdated to October 2010 and which he also asked the complainant, his client, to sign. Mr Van Aalst then relied on this costs agreement before the Court to advance his application for a lump sum costs order, as though the costs agreement had been signed in October 2010. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
Mr Van Aalst, in October 2012, arranged for a costs agreement to be backdated to October 2010, having his instructing solicitor and client sign it, and then relied on it before the Court as if genuinely executed in 2010. This was found to constitute Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct. The extract contains no express finding of dishonesty and states no specific sanction.
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=926e5561-738a-4761-9839-3608b26762cd