Laurence John Treanor [1998] NSWLST 7

The Legal Services Tribunal of New South Wales

CITATION : Laurence John Treanor [1998] NSWLST 7 PARTIES : Laurence John Treanor FILE NUMBER(S) : of 1997 CORAM: Mr F Riley (Chairman) - Ms H Reed - Ms E Hayes CATCHWORDS: Professional Misconduct - fail to comply with s. 152 Notice :- LEGISLATION CITED: Legal Profession Act 1987 CASES CITED: DATES OF HEARING: 31 August 1998 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 08/31/1998 LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: Mr I Wales Mr DKL Raphael

JUDGMENT: Chairman The Tribunal, at the commencement of our hearing this morning, agreed, with the consent of counsel for the solicitor/respondent, to hear the complaints of professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct referred to in the amended Information filed on 28 August.

The grounds of the relevant conduct in the amended Information were expressed in the same terms as those in the original Information filed on 27 February 1998 and the particulars contained in that latter Information were the same as the original but the orders sought in the third schedule were the subject of some amendment.

The Law Society sought to further amend the Information by deleting paragraphs four and five of schedule one relating to what I will describe shortly as, the Geaney complaint. While Mr Raphael, for the solicitor, said that he had understood the Informant did not intend to pursue ground two of the complaint, he agreed that the Tribunal should deal with the allegation contained in it.

It transpired, however, that following some argument in relation to the admissibility of paragraphs 16 and 17 of the affidavit of 24 February 1998 of Raymond John Collins and the relevant annexures to those paragraphs, which dealt with the Geaney complaint, that those paragraphs were not read by counsel for the Informant and the Society subsequently indicated that it would withdraw ground two of the Information.