Deticketed solicitor refused readmission … Complains about Supreme Court reasons and wants judgment amended … Lack of insight … Failure to rehabilitate … And – Qld copper turned lawyer comes a cropper … Delay, concealment, leading client up the garden path … Mae Milne reports from the Bureau de Spank
Disciplinary Mayhem
Hellfire Club Friday, May 29, 2026Solicitors in strife from one end of the country to the other … Unpaid counsel fees … Failure to be humble … Defects of character … A doomed special leave application … Mortgage in breach of court orders … Flawed fling for immunity … Desperation all around … Mae Milne reports from the Hellfire Club
Regulator Regrets
Hellfire Club Monday, April 13, 2026Payday for Lord Eldon … Acting for six years without a penny … QCAT orders indemnity costs against Legal Services Commissioner in flawed campaign against Brisbane solicitor … Bureau de Spank runs amok … Body corporate drama … Mae Milne reports
Frost bitten
Hellfire Club Tuesday, February 24, 2026WA lawyer bites the dust after coming clean on bogus emails … Pretending to help a former employee with alternate employment … Change of law regarding weight to be given by the Supreme Court to findings of the Tribunal … Mae Milne reports
Time’s up for Naughty Nathan
Hellfire Club Wednesday, August 6, 2025Recommendation that horrible NSW solicitor be derolled … Misuse of online funding campaigns … Spraying ripe and abusive language … Trolling Robert Beech-Jones … So unfit and improper as to be beyond reeducation … Anthony Kanaan reports
Potty mouth solicitor dispatched
Hellfire Club Friday, July 25, 2025NSW Court of Appeal takes dim view of solicitor who laced his correspondence with disrespectful insults … Insufficiently professional … Arrived from Greece with only his underpants … No contrition … Anthony Kanaan reports
Round-up from the Bureau de Spank
Hellfire Club Tuesday, July 1, 2025Solicitor acts without instructions from the donor of an power of attorney … Dodgy mortgage – Melbourne law shop nailed for negligent advice over contest about freezing orders … No immunity – Derailed Melbourne brief … More Sandbach – Anthony Kanaan reports
Strikings off
Hellfire Club Friday, May 10, 2024Fit and proper … Latest rulings from WA and NSW … Solicitors attraction to other people’s money … Abject departure from the gold standard … Anthony Kanaan looks at how unfit and improper you have to be in order to get de-rolled