Legal Services Commissioner v Slipper
[2019] QCAT 169
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Legal Services Commissioner v Slipper[2019] QCAT 169
Legal Services Commissioner v Slipper[2019] QCAT 169
QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
CITATION: | Legal Services Commissioner v Slipper [2019] QCAT 169 |
PARTIES: | LEGAL SERVICES COMMISSIONER (applicant) v ROBIN JOHN SLIPPER (No 2) (respondent) |
APPLICATION NO/S: | OCR 110-14 |
MATTER TYPE: | Occupational regulation matters |
DELIVERED ON: | 1 July 2019 |
HEARING DATE: | 22-23 August 2018 |
HEARD AT: | Brisbane |
DECISION OF: | Hon Peter Lyons QC, Judicial Member Assisted by: Ms Megan Mahon Dr Margaret Steinberg AM |
ORDERS: |
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CATCHWORDS: | PROFESSIONS AND TRADES – LAWYERS – COMPLAINTS AND DISCIPLINE – PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT AND UNSATISFACTORY PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT – where the Tribunal found that in five of the matters to which the discipline application relates the respondent placed himself in a position of conflict and then engaged in rapacious conduct – where the Tribunal found that the conduct in each of those five matters was professional misconduct – where the Tribunal also found that the respondent took estate moneys to which he was not entitled and demonstrated gross incompetence – where the parties were granted the opportunity to make submissions on the Tribunal’s proposed orders upon these findings but did not do so – determination of final orders against respondent |
APPEARANCES & REPRESENTATION: |
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Applicant: | G R Rice QC, instructed by Legal Services Commission |
Respondent: | B T Cohen, solicitor of Bartley Cohen |
- [1]The findings made in this matter are recorded in earlier reasons.[1] The parties were given the opportunity to make submissions about the orders proposed by the Tribunal, but have made no submissions about them. Accordingly, the following orders are made:-
- The Tribunal recommends that the respondent’s name be removed from the local roll.
- The respondent is to pay the applicant’s costs of and incidental to the application, to be assessed on the standard basis.
Footnotes
[1]Legal Services Commissioner v Slipper [2019] QCAT 146.