Decision record
Leonardo Fernando Christie
Allegation / charges
Struck off | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered July 24th, 2021. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 199/2020 IN THE MATTER OF TINA GOLLAB and LEONARDO FERNANDO CHRISTIE an Attorney-at-Law AND …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The complainant engaged the attorney in 2017 to handle a personal injury claim arising from a 2015 accident, handing over her original documents. After November 2019 the attorney ceased communication and was unreachable despite her extensive efforts. The Committee found the attorney guilty of professional misconduct for breaching Canons IV(r) and (s). The attorney did not attend the hearing or make submissions in mitigation. He was struck from the Roll and ordered to pay costs of $20,000 to the complainant and $20,000 to the General Legal Council.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=40000"]