Ground 1: Breaches of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules 2015 (NSW), rr 60(a), 61(a), 64(a), 65(a), and 8(c) relating to the making of allegations of fact in legal proceedings amounting to allegations of serious misconduct against an opposing solicitor which were not reasonably justified or properly available on the material.
Ground 2: Breach of the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct General Rules 2015 (NSW), r 13(q)(i) relating to the failure to comply with a personal costs order made on 7 June 2017 in Supreme Court proceedings in which he appeared as counsel.