TREVOR HOWARD BRICKHILL

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

The Legal Profession Complaints Committee moved to strike Trevor Howard Brickhill from the Roll following his convictions under the Corruption and Crime Commission Act. On 29 June 2010 he counselled his former client's wife to destroy computer records relevant to a CCC investigation and advised his former client to transfer property to avoid attention. On 5 November 2010 he knowingly gave false evidence under oath before the CCC. He was convicted (fined $10,000 and given a 12-month suspended sentence) and pleaded guilty. The SAT found professional misconduct under s 404. The Full Bench, finding the conduct demonstrated a lack of honesty and integrity incompatible with fitness to practise, ordered his name removed from the Roll. No order as to Supreme Court costs; the Tribunal had ordered $1,000 costs.

Duties found breached:

• Not mislead third parties or opponents
• Handle inadvertently received material
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Conduct connected with and undermining the administration of justice
• Serious and recent criminal convictions (fined $10,000 and 12 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months)
• Conduct analogous to perjury; counselling destruction of evidence tending to pervert course of justice
• Demonstrated lack of honesty and integrity incompatible with fitness to practice

Mitigating factors:

• Pleaded guilty to both criminal charges
• Admitted the conduct before the Tribunal and consented to removal from the Roll
• Recognised and accepted the seriousness of his conduct