Decision record

de Robillard, Christian Roger

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionbarrister — (Formerly) St James Centre

Case number[2024] NSWCA 299

Date13-Dec-2024

HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal

OutcomeRemoval of name from Supreme Court Roll $0.00

Allegation / charges

Ground 1: Breaches of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules 2015 (NSW), rr 60(a), 61(a), 64(a), 65(a), and 8(c) relating to the making of allegations of fact in legal proceedings amounting to allegations of serious misconduct against an opposing solicitor which were not reasonably justified or properly available on the material. Ground 2: Breach of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct General Rules 2015 (NSW), r 13(q)(i) relating to the failure to comply with a personal costs order made on 7 June 2017 in Supreme Court proceedings in which he appeared as counsel. — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

A barrister faced two grounds: (1) making allegations of fact amounting to serious misconduct against an opposing solicitor without reasonable justification, breaching the Barristers' Conduct Rules; and (2) failing to comply with a personal costs order made 7 June 2017. The conduct was characterised as professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express dishonesty finding, sanction, fine, or costs figures 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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