Where multiple complaints are brought in a single discipline application under the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld), s 462 costs provisions must be applied separately to each complaint/charge. A practitioner who successfully contests one charge but is found to have engaged in prescribed conduct on another is liable for costs only in respect of the charge on which prescribed conduct was found. [name withheld] does not establish an absolute rule that mixed success on charges can never constitute 'exceptional circumstances' under s 462(1).
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