大家凡是已经买的，或者正要买的都小心自己的钱被中介和律师合伙坑掉。
几年前在GJPW的Jason Guo手里买的homebush west的房子，小区名字叫Centenary Park. 当时自己对买房没有任何经验，任凭中介给我介绍了一个律师-city的Goh Lawyer.
当时settle的时候有一个费用是council rate,律师收了我900左右，说是开发商已经帮我交掉了，律师必须手了我的帮我还给开发商。由于首次购房，律师说什么信什么，自觉主动快速的把钱给了律师。未料到大半年以后受到council的法律文书，由于我拖欠council rate大半年，council已把我告上法庭。（中间还有一个插曲是，律师没有把我的所有bill地址改成我即将入住的这个自住房homebush west,而导致我所有的bill和警告信全部寄去了我之前的地址）。话说回来，我一直没有意识到律师没有帮我交council rate直到我突然发现我被council告了，而且马上影响我的credit信誉，还有一笔legal fee要我付。
和律师困难沟通就不说了，电话不接，email不回，总之他说不是他的错，他也不知道怎么回事。我问了一起买房的朋友和邻居，全部有这个问题（大家一定要去查一下自己的账，如果你不查，这个钱就是律师和中介黑掉了）。和律师沟通他能给的best offer就是我自己去council付掉欠款，他会reimburse我最初收我的钱，至于legal fee律师表示不管，至于我的credit信誉律师表示不管，至于扣住我钱大半年的利息，律师表示不可能给。
请问各位买房的该怎么办？我准备去Office of the Legal Services Commissioner告我的律师。（直接google这个机构）
上面有一条叫conduct complaint：professional misconduct（下面引用）
Professional misconduct is defined under the LPA 2004 as either "unsatisfactory professional conduct which involves a substantial or consistent failure to reach or maintain a reasonable standard or competence and diligence or conduct happening in connection with the practice of law or otherwise that would, if established, justify a finding that the practitioner is not a fit and proper person to engage in legal practice".

• Conflicts of interest 律师和中介有联系，律师没有代表我purchaser的利益

• Acting contrary to instructions

• Misleading or dishonest conduct in or outside court

• Misappropriation of trust money 就是所说的council rate不知去向
  

还有一条叫 consumer dispute（以下引用）

• Delays

• Costs

• Poor communication or rudeness 就是电话不接，email不回，还直接在电话里超我吼了。。。 说他不会负责，这是我自己的问题。

• Release of a client's documents or property (liens)

另外，由于我问了，这不是个案，所以根据 Office of the Legal Services Commissioner上写的：这个不是mere negligence，而是misconduct。（以下引用）
What is the difference between negligence and issues of misconduct? The Courts have made a careful distinction between instances of negligent conduct by legal practitioners and issues of misconduct by legal practitioners. Where a complainant has access to a civil remedy for the wrong that she or he alleges that legal practitioner has committed, a Court or the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) - Occupational Division will be reluctant to find the legal practitioner guilty of a conduct offence as well. To attract disciplinary consequences, the conduct must be proven to have gone beyond "mere carelessness'. What is required is something more than "mere negligence".

如果不是我开始学习law，我压根不会发现澳洲华人的律师操作这么混乱舞弊，大家凡是和这个物业，这个中介，这个律师沾上边的，赶紧查一下自己的账（可能不仅仅是council rate哦），如果需要去告律师的请给我留言，我看看有没有什么可以互相帮忙的。

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