di Suvero -v- Bar Association (LSD) [2001] NSWADTAP 9

Appeal Panel

CITATION: di Suvero -v- Bar Association (LSD) [2001] NSWADTAP 9 APPLICANT PARTIES: Henry Millo de Suvero RESPONDENT Council of the Bar Association of New South Wales FILE NUMBER: 009016 HEARING DATES: 17/10/2000 18/10/2000 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 10/18/2000 DATE OF DECISION: 03/29/2001

Determination as to unsatisfactory professional conduct; penalty DECISION UNDER APPEAL: BEFORE: O'Connor K - DCJ (President); Officer D QC - Judicial Member; Geddes J - Member CATCHWORDS: statutory interpretation - Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct- behaviour during trial MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter FILE NUMBER UNDER APPEAL: 9824 DATE OF DECISION UNDER APPEAL: 05/05/2000 LEGISLATION CITED : Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 Legal Profession Act 1987 New South Wales Bar Association v di Suvero [2000] NSWADT 194 & 195 Woodside & anor v Director General, Department of Community Services [2000] NSWADTAP 8 Mayhew v A [1999] NSWADTAP 1 Attorney General for the State of New South Wales v X [2000] NSWCA 199; (2000) 49 NSWLR 653 (CA) R v A & B [1999] NSWADTAP 2 Director General, Department of Transport v Rasheed [2000] NSWADTAP 16 R v Dyers [2000] NSWCA 335 Allinson v General Council of Medical Education and Registration [1894] 1 QB 750 Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of NSW v Costello [1984] 3 NSWLR 201 CASES CITED: Clyne v NSW Bar Association (1960) 104 CLR 186 Batchelor & Co Pty Ltd v Websdale [1963] SR NSW 49 Y.Z. Finance Co Pty Ltd v Cummings (1964) 109 CLR 395 Dilworth v Commissioner of Stamps [1899] AC 99 (Privy Ccl) Lewis v Judge Ogden (1984) 153 CLR 682 NSW Bar Association v Hamman [1999] NSWCA 404 R v Gray [1900] 2 QB 36 Pashuram Detaram Shamdasani v King-Emperor [1945] AC 264 Re Bellanto [1963] SR NSW 190 Hinch v Attorney General (Vic) (1987) 164 CLR 15 Woodside & anor v Director General, Department of Community Services [2000] NSWADTAP 8 Soulemizis v Dudley (Holdings) Pty Ltd (1987) 10 NSWLR 247 APPLICANT REPRESENTATION: F McAlary QC with M Thangaraj, barristers RESPONDENT P Garling SC with P Skinner, barristers ORDERS: 1. The appeal as it relates to grounds 1 to 16 of the amended notice of appeal (the liability issues) is dismissed. ; 2. The matter is to be relisted by the Registrar within 28 days, unless otherwise directed, to hear any submissions in relation to grounds 17 and 18 of the amended notice of appeal (the penalty issues) and as to costs.