did not exist<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Friday, the tribunal said it had dismissed two of the four allegations against Mr Belperio.<\/p>\n
However, it said it was satisfied by the evidence concerning two of the counts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe find that the practitioner engaged in inappropriate and unwanted physical or sexual contact and or advances toward (the lawyer),\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also find he used his professional relationship with her and her firm to remain in contact, thereby enabling him to engage in physical or sexual contact in circumstances where he knew, or should have known, she was not consenting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe find the practitioner engaged in conduct, occurring in the circumstances of practising the law, which would justify proceedings he was not a fit and proper person to practice the profession of law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frances Nelson KC, for the Legal Practitioners Conduct Commissioner, said she expected to be instructed to pursue the matter in the Full Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI seek an interim order that Mr Belperio be prohibited from being alone in chambers with female practitioners, given the finding,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Julie Condon KC, for Mr Belperio, opposed that application saying it had been made \u201cwithout notice\u201d and she needed time to consider the tribunal\u2019s reasons.<\/p>\n
The tribunal agreed, declining to make the interim order and adjourning the case until next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top barrister\u2019s inappropriate, unwanted and non-consensual sexual contact with a junior lawyer justifies a finding he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38243,38268,38205,38276,38258,38277,38251,38215,38244,38200,38219,395,38238,38245,38202,38278,38236,38260,38279,37623,38204,38241,22675,38247,38213,38262,38246,5251,38230,28568,38242,38266,10485,38231,38223,38216,9715,38212,38248,38261,38250,38208,38229,38232,38226,38227,38210,38217,38256,3795,38270,38271,38225,38237,38254,38201,38214,3116,38198,38257,38267,9875,20337,35704,38259,38272,38265,38274,38255,36697,38099,38211,38199,38263,38273,38239,38206,38209,38252,38240,36531,38221,34680,38207,38203,38220,37516,38275,38218,38224,38222,38249,38234,38253,38264,38233,38228,36894,38280,38235,38269,38197],"class_list":["post-52396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-s-ai-future","tag-s-inappropriate","tag-s-reasons-the-tribunal","tag-s-reputation-mr-belperio","tag-s-sexual-acts","tag-a-finding","tag-a-fit-and-proper-person","tag-a-formal-complaint","tag-a-junior-lawyer","tag-a-top-barrister","tag-a-tribunal","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-software-engineer","tag-adelaide-it","tag-advances","tag-all-contact","tag-an-imbalance","tag-an-interim-order","tag-an-unfit-person","tag-any-wrongdoing","tag-apologies-and-remorse","tag-app-download-boxthe-commissioner","tag-application","tag-bar-chambers","tag-bar-chambers-barrister-enzo-belperio","tag-chambers","tag-circumstances","tag-commissioner","tag-condon-kc","tag-conduct","tag-contact","tag-enzo-belperio","tag-evidence","tag-female-practitioners","tag-former-raaf-pilot-rowan-willson","tag-frances-nelson-kc","tag-friday","tag-her-and-her-firm","tag-her-firm","tag-his-career-it","tag-his-counsel","tag-his-professional-relationship","tag-his-role","tag-his-unwanted-sexual-advances","tag-inappropriate-and-uninvited-physical-and-sexual-contact","tag-inappropriate-and-unwanted-physical-or-sexual-contact","tag-it-mr-belperio","tag-junior-lawyer","tag-junior-lawyer-sex-case","tag-law","tag-mid","tag-mid-2020-she","tag-misconduct-finding","tag-mr-belperio","tag-mr-belperio-heir","tag-mr-belperio-however","tag-next-month","tag-notice","tag-off-who","tag-person","tag-physical-or-sexual-contact","tag-power","tag-proceedings","tag-professional-misconduct","tag-several-months","tag-stories","tag-subscriber-exclusives","tag-the-imbalance","tag-the-advertiser","tag-the-case","tag-the-circumstances","tag-the-counts","tag-the-decision","tag-the-end","tag-the-evidence","tag-the-fasta-pasta-restaurant-empire","tag-the-finding","tag-the-four-allegations","tag-the-full-court","tag-the-hearing","tag-the-incident","tag-the-interim-order","tag-the-law","tag-the-lawyer","tag-the-legal-practitioners-conduct-commissioner","tag-the-legal-practitioners-disciplinary-tribunal","tag-the-matter","tag-the-minds","tag-the-practitioner","tag-the-profession","tag-the-project","tag-the-proposed-dennislaw-ai-legal-tool","tag-the-supreme-court","tag-the-tribunal","tag-the-whole-time","tag-the-young-female-lawyer","tag-this-top-barrister","tag-time","tag-top-barrister","tag-tribunal-rules","tag-unwanted-and-non-consensual-sexual-contact","tag-unwanted-sexual-conduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}