Council of the Law Society of New South Wales v Michael Arthur Hislop

• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Disciplinary proceedings
  3. › Removal from roll
  4. › Conviction for serious criminal offences
  5. › Whether fit and proper person
  6. › Whether conviction for armed robbery incompatible with membership of legal profession
  7. › Whether declaration of unfitness necessary where order for removal made
  8. › Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), ss 22, 264
• 1. Costs
  2. › Discretion of the court
  3. › Professional disciplinary proceedings
  4. › Whether rehabilitation of respondent a sound basis for declining to make costs order
  5. › Whether impecuniosity relevant to exercise of discretion
  6. › Whether funding from Public Purpose Fund relevant
  7. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 98(1)
  8. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.1

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