Nachiappan, Sorna

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Nachiappan Pty Ltd

Date27-Oct-2025

HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales

OutcomeImmediate suspension of Practising Certificate The Council of the Law Society of New South Wales (Council) is considering whether to start, continue or complete action under Part 3.5 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) (Uniform Law) and considers it necessary in the public interest to: • Grant the Solicitor’s application for renewal of a practising certificate for the period ending 30 June 2026 • Immediately suspend the practitioner’s practising certificate as Council reasonably believes the Solicitor is unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner • Restrict the Solicitor from applying for a practising certificate for a period of two (2) years pursuant to s 94 of the Uniform Law $0.00 Specified Duration: Manager appointed for a period of 2 years Manager Appointed: Yes Manager Appointed

Allegation / charges

It appears the Solicitor has: Inserted signatures into four (4) costs agreements without authorisation; Provided those costs agreements to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner (NSW Commissioner) in an attempt to mislead; and Made a written statement to the NSW Commissioner in an attempt to mislead — Unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The Solicitor was found to have inserted signatures into four costs agreements without authorisation and to have provided those agreements and a written statement to the NSW Legal Services Commissioner in attempts to mislead, rendering the Solicitor unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner. No express finding of dishonesty (as such) or specific sanction is 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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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=dcc4dabe-3d84-4e90-8981-f1eadee5d5ab