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Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd [2024] FCA 308

Legal Services Commissioner v De Fraine [2024] QCAT 105 (22 March 2024)

Catchwords: “applicant registered as a barrister in New Zealand as an employee with a requirement to be supervised - whether applicant is entitled to be registered as a barrister in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory by operation of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act…”

[36] First, the defendant led Ms Farrell to believe that the plaintiff was running personal injury litigation on her behalf in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, with trial dates in November 2022. This was false, and no such proceedings were commenced. Also, false claims were made by the defendant to Ms Farrell that a mediation had been arranged and had taken place, during which settlement offers had been made to Ms Farrell in the amounts of $800,000 and $1.8 million.

[37] Ms Farrell, then suffering from Stage 4 cancer, came to Sydney expecting to participate in the purported mediation in about April 2022, only to be told by the defendant that the mediator had contracted Covid-19 and that the mediation could not go ahead.

SUCCESSION — application by Deputy Curator of Deceased Estates pursuant to s 130 of the Administration and Probate Act 2006 (NI) and pursuant to the Trustee Act 1931 (NI) and s 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) — where female deceased died intestate in 1894 and was survived by her husband, the male deceased, who was lost at sea in 1920 having left a will made in 1907 leaving all of his real property on Norfolk Island to his five children