Solicitors & Bankruptcy Lawyers Newcastle NSW
Roshan’s effective and sympathetic nature supports her wish to take on difficult and exciting things, spending so much time to ensure the most readily useful result for her clients and handling each situation with the strictest of confidence. Previous to joining Teddington Legal, she spent a number of years lecturing in Law at a tertiary stage acquiring a wealth of information on every area of law. She's travelled extensively and is socially and culturally diverse. As former NSW Police and a certified Workplace Investigator, Phil’s main areas of practice are workplace and employment law, workplace investigations, criminal and traffic law
Brian’s extensive experience in conveyancing, wills and estate law, civil litigation and commercial transactions is of immeasurable advantage to the firm’s consumers when their Family Law matters require those regions of the law. His known expertise in these regions of the law has also drawn to the firm several customers who are not involved in Family Law matters. John was admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of NSW in 1983, and was appointed a Notary Public in 1993. He was formerly a Supreme Court Costs Assessor and a person in the Law Cover Small Claims Board.
Dr Jane Wangmann, in a recent evaluation of court records in NSW, reached finding very similar to Hunter’s. In her observations of AVO issues in 2006–7, she found, like Hunter, that cases were dealt with in 3 minutes or less. She also mentioned that the information presented in problems was short and sometimes vague. It's barely surprising, then, that judges in family law cases draw no inferences from the mere existence of a family violence order. This has been the clear view of family lawyers for the last 15 years.
A legal practitioner has an obligation to provide legal services with reasonable care and skill. A legal practitioner who fails to do this might be in breach of these duty of care to the consumer. Courts have established that negligence is a kind of unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct only when it goes beyond “mere carelessness” or “mere negligence”. An example of solicitor negligence is the giving of wrong legal advice which results in financial loss to the client. The Women’s Legal Services NSW is promoting a free, secure website providing you with online advice, training and legal support for community workers across NSW.
The opinion that family violence orders are a weapon in the battle between parents is driven by the fact that judges are expected under the Family Law Act to consider such family violence orders in determining the needs of the child. The proposed clause in this Bill takes the law right back to what it had been before 2006, without any explanation for why Parliament should reverse its prior decision at least to reduce the provision. It surely doesn’t matter whether this perception that family violence orders are employed tactically is true or not.
In Kennedy v The Council of the Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales reported in Vol 13 of the Australian Law Journal at 563, Rich J said,.. that a cost of misconduct as relating to a solicitor need not fall within any legal definition of wrong doing. It need not amount to an offence under the law. It was enough that it amounted to grave impropriety impacting his professional character and was indicative of a failure either to recognize or to practise the precepts of honesty or honest dealing in relation to the courts, his customers or the public.
M G Sexton SC, Solicitor-General for the State of New South Wales with J E Davidson for the Attorney-General for the State of New South Wales, intervening (instructed by Crown Solicitor (NSW) M G Hinton QC, Solicitor-General for the State of South Australia with C Jacobi for the Attorney-General for the State of South Australia, intervening (instructed by Crown Solicitor (SA) G R Donaldson SC, Solicitor-General for the State of Western Australia with T C Russell for the Attorney-General for the State of Western Australia, intervening (instructed by State Solicitor (WA)
