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Man wins bid to become lay associate despite intimate image conviction
A tribunal has allowed a man to work as a lay associate despite his conviction for threatening to “expose” a...
20 November 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Reprimand marks end to lawyer’s 50-year career
A Port Macquarie lawyer has been reprimanded and fined for assisting a client with the sale of a property in...
17 November 2025
By Naomi Neilson
NSW lawyer claims to be stuck with useless practising certificate
A tribunal will not interfere with the NSW Law Society’s decision to impose a restrictive condition on a lawyer’s...
12 November 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Disciplinary action for potty-mouthed lawyer futile, tribunal finds
There was no longer a point to pursuing disciplinary proceedings against a lawyer who had already been struck off the...
12 November 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Caution sticks to lawyer for misleading letter to costs assessor
A lawyer who was cautioned over an attempt to have a costs assessment stayed has failed to have the disciplinary action...
10 November 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Practising certificate refused for lawyer convicted of serious offences
The NSW Law Society has published its decision to refuse to grant a practising certificate to a solicitor convicted of...
17 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Struck-off parents, private investigator: Further details about Sydney solicitor’s dodgy creditor scheme emerge
A recommendation has been made to remove the name of a disgraced legal practitioner due to her conduct in a misleading...
02 October 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Client sues NSW lawyer over $10k refund
Frustrated with the way his criminal matter was handled, an NSW man attempted to win back the $10,000 he paid to a...
19 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Graduate cleared to practise law after violent spree and police punch
A law graduate convicted of a string of violent offences – after being capsicum-sprayed by police during a...
15 September 2025
By Grace Robbie
$88k in salaries, office expenses stolen by firm’s bookkeeper
A bookkeeper has been permanently restrained from working in law firms after she was found guilty of stealing more than...
08 September 2025
By Naomi Neilson
3 lawyers avoid complaint referral amid jurisdictional debate
If not for a jurisdictional issue, a man would have continued to press his serious allegations of professional...
14 August 2025
By Naomi Neilson
‘Stick it up your a--e’: Foul-mouthed lawyer recommended for strike-off
Controversial solicitor Nathan Andrew Buckley of “wet dildo” infamy could have his name struck off for a number of...
31 July 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Jurisdictional roadblock in the way of solicitor recovering practising certificate
A solicitor convicted of serious criminal offences ran into a jurisdictional issue when he attempted to overturn a...
09 June 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Practising certificate cancelled for solicitor over off-limits work
A solicitor with decades of experience under his belt was shut out of the legal profession for a year after he was...
11 April 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Solicitor hit with fresh charges of ‘offensive’ conduct
Further allegations of offensive and abusive conduct have been levelled against a solicitor who will soon face...
13 March 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Principal lawyer reprimanded for $300k loan to client
A Sydney principal lawyer was reprimanded for loaning $300,000 to a client in an agreement that saw him pocket an...
06 February 2025
By Naomi Neilson
1-year penalty for barrister who sexually harassed young lawyers
Although recent concerning behaviour showed he has a “considerable way to go”, a high-profile barrister who...
20 January 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Legal centre demands Legal Aid hand over confidential documents
Frustrated with Legal Aid NSW for an unsuccessful program involving community legal centres, the Marrickville Legal...
17 December 2024
By Naomi Neilson
NSW solicitor fails to escape reprimand, unsatisfactory professional conduct finding
While a tribunal accepted the mistake that led to a solicitor’s reprimand was not “egregious”, his behaviour...
31 October 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Threatening Facebook message about bigamy lands lawyer in hot water
Years on from an unsatisfactory professional conduct finding, an NSW solicitor was unable to shake a reprimand for...
21 October 2024
By Naomi Neilson