Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered ActsThe following conduct is capable of constituting unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct--
(a) conduct consisting of a contravention of a relevant law, whether the conduct happened before or after the commencement of this section;
Note--
Under the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 7, and the Statutory Instruments Act 1992, section 7, a contravention in relation to this Act would include a contravention of a regulation or legal profession rules and a contravention in relation to a previous Act would include a contravention of a legal profession rule under the Legal Profession Act 2004.
(b) charging of excessive legal costs in connection with the practice of law;
(c) conduct for which there is a conviction for--
(i) a serious offence; or
(ii) a tax offence; or
(iii) an offence involving dishonesty;
(d) conduct of an Australian legal practitioner as or in becoming an insolvent under administration;
(e) conduct of an Australian legal practitioner in becoming disqualified from managing or being involved in the management of any corporation under the Corporations Act;
(f) conduct of an Australian legal practitioner in failing to comply with an order of a disciplinary body made under this Act or an order of a corresponding disciplinary body made under a corresponding law, including a failure to pay wholly or partly a fine imposed under this Act or a corresponding law;
(g) conduct of an Australian legal practitioner in failing to comply with a compensation order made under this Act or a corresponding law.
(2) Also, conduct that happened before the commencement of this subsection that, at the time it happened, consisted of a contravention of a relevant law or a corresponding law is capable of constituting unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct.
(3) This section does not limit section 418 or 419.