OCCUPATIONS – legal practitioners – solicitors – conflict of interest – litigation about property joint venture – solicitor acting for trustee of unit trust owning half of property – solicitor also acting for unit-holder making resulting trust and misleading & deceptive conduct claims – conflict of interest.

CIVIL PROCEDURE – representation of parties – solicitor acting for parties not in the same interest – leave of court – Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 7.25.

Jennifer Mee represented the Second and Fourth Respondents.

Reasons for the decision can be found here.