A West Australian practitioner who admitted to several dishonest and deliberate legal aid claims and lied about them during an audit has dodged an order that she be recommended for strike-off.
Citing her insight and conduct over the last several years, the West Australian State Administrative Tribunal (WASAT) declined to refer Razaan Mosaval to a full bench of the Supreme Court with a recommendation that she be struck from the roll of practitioners.
Judge Henry Jackson, deputy president John O’Sullivan, and senior member Ross Povey were satisfied there was not “an immediate need to protect the public” from Mosaval’s conduct.
“That is, we are satisfied that she is presently fit to practice and does not pose such a risk that she must be removed from practice.
“We are also satisfied that there is no need to ‘bring home’ to Mosaval the seriousness of her conduct, nor is there a need to deter her from repeating the conduct in question,” the WASAT bench said.
Between December 2018 and January 2020, while running her own firm, Crescent Legal, Mosaval submitted seven deliberately dishonest claims to Legal Aid WA (LAWA) for payment for services which had not been performed and disbursements that were not incurred.
There was an additional claim made during this period in which Mosaval was “recklessly indifferent to the truth”.
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