Edwards -v- Law Society of New South Wales & anor [2000] NSWADT 29

CITATION: Edwards -v- Law Society of New South Wales & anor [2000] NSWADT 29 DIVISION: Legal Services Division APPLICANT Lynette Kay Edwards

PARTIES: 1st RESPONDENT Council of the Law Society of New South Wales

2nd RESPONDENT Council of the Bar Association of New South Wales FILE NUMBER: 992026 HEARING DATES: 08/11/99 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 01/10/2000 DATE OF DECISION: 03/23/2000

BEFORE: Turner RF - Judicial Member; Barnes M - Judicial Member; Hayes E - Member APPLICATION: Approval to employ a person convicted of an indictable offence (s.48K) MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter LEGISLATION CITED : Legal Profession Act 1987 CASES CITED: APPLICANT A W Street SC, barrister 1st RESPONDENT REPRESENTATION: D Barton, solicitor

2nd RESPONDENT J Needham, barrister ORDERS: 1. The Tribunal approves Part A of the Amended Application of Lynette Kay Edwards to be an associate of Nash O'Neill Tomko subject to the following conditions:; 1.1 The Applicant will not open any correspondence arriving at Nash O'Neill Tomko Lawyers ("NOT").; 1.2 The work the Applicant will be undertaking at NOT will be wordprocessing and the Applicant will work under the supervision of the partners.; 1.3 The Applicant will not have any contact with the NOT office account system.; 1.4 The Applicant will not have any contact with the NOT trust account system.; 1.5 The Applicant will not have any access to the NOT office petty cash system.; 1.6 The Applicant will not have any access to NOT cash or cheques.; 1.7 Cabcharge vouchers are given to the Applicant by the partners' bookkeeper and are not transferable.; 1.8 The Applicant will not have contact with the NOTpartners' clients apart from occasions on which the Applicant receives specific instructions from a NOT partner to contact a client, for a specified purpose.; 1.9 The Applicant's duties at NOT will be transcription typing of dictation tapes prepared by the legal practitioners and secretarial duties and will not involve any form of accounting or bookkeeping.; 2. No order as to costs.