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Complaints against Shane Drumgold dropped by ACT Bar
The ACT Bar Association has dismissed 10 grounds of complaint against the territory’s former chief prosecutor, with...
15 October 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Adelaide lawyer’s ‘incompetence’ stuns disciplinary committee
Despite being reassured time and again that his matter “was in hand”, an Adelaide business owner’s matter was...
12 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Rural lawyer publicly reprimanded for botching will matter
Clients were left with “very little recourse” to contest a will because their rural Queensland lawyer failed to...
13 June 2024
By Naomi Neilson
NSW barrister sexually harassed law students
A former NSW barrister watched a sexually explicit video in front of a law student and showed a sex toy to a woman...
17 April 2024
By Naomi Neilson
‘Too pretty for jail’: Lawyer disciplined for social media posts
A lawyer who told a client he was “too pretty” to be behind bars and boasted he could “keep all the boys out of...
28 March 2024
By Naomi Neilson
‘Wet dildo’: Solicitor faces discipline for shocking social media posts
Controversial lawyer Nathan Buckley, who publicly accused the Law Society of NSW of targeting his “arse like a wet...
14 December 2023
By Naomi Neilson
Lawyer convicted of indecent treatment of a child struck off
The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal has ordered that one of the state’s lawyers, who failed to report...
01 August 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Sydney lawyer who made major claims about NSW Bar to be struck from roll
A Sydney lawyer’s name has been recommended to be struck from the roll of practitioners following a number of...
16 June 2023
By Naomi Neilson
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