Office of the Legal Services Commissioner

<p>A manager was appointed to the law practice after the practitioner’s practising certificate was varied from that of a principal of a law practice to an employee of a law practice, and as a result the law practice was not able to operate.&nbsp;The practising certificate was varied for the following reasons:</p><p>(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;section 82(1)(a) – the Solicitor failed to comply with the conditions of his practising certificate;</p><p>(ii) section 82(1)(d) – Council reasonably believed that the solicitor is unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner as a principal of&nbsp;a law practice due to an ongoing failure over a period of 15 months to comply with a Management System Direction issued by the Legal Services Commissioner, and failure to comply with the conditions of his practising certificate.</p>