Decision record

Speirs, Kristy Anne

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW)

Case number[2021] NSWCATOD 200

Date10-Dec-2021

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Reprimand $0.00

Allegation / charges

The Respondent Solicitor misled or attempted to mislead a Police Sergeant by sending to the Police Sergeant an email that indicated a report seeking authority to obtain an induced statement was with the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions when it was not. The Respondent Solicitor misled or attempted to mislead a Detective Senior Constable by sending an email to the Detective Senior Constable that indicated a decision to withdraw a charge was made by the Crown and that a copy of the ‘actual direction’ would be provided when no such direction had been sought or given. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The Respondent Solicitor was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct by sending two misleading emails to police officers: one falsely indicating a report was with the DPP chambers, and another falsely indicating a charge withdrawal decision had been made by the Crown when no such direction existed. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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