DEJ v Council of the New South Wales Bar Association

• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Disciplinary proceedings
  3. › Practising certificate conditions
  4. › Financial management and tax affairs
  5. › Contravention of conditions
  6. › Whether psychiatric disorder provided 'reasonable excuse'
  7. › Whether contraventions constituted professional misconduct
  8. › Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW), ss 58, 73(1)
• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Disciplinary proceedings
  3. › Knowingly false representations to regulatory body
  4. › Whether Tribunal's finding that affidavit was knowingly false was open on the evidence
  5. › Rule in Browne v Dunn
  6. › Whether Court of Appeal in position to make substitute findings
• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Disciplinary proceedings
  3. › Representations as to future conduct
  4. › Whether acting contrary to earlier representation about selling property to discharge tax liabilities constituted professional misconduct
  5. › Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW), s 497(1)(b)
• 1. Legal Practitioners
  2. › Fitness to practise
  3. › Removal from roll of lawyers
  4. › Flagrant disregard for tax obligations and practising conditions
  5. › Whether removal justified notwithstanding errors in Tribunal's reasoning on other grounds

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