Checklist · Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation
Queensland legal profession: conduct categories and who can be investigated
Checklist of the conduct definitions and the classes of person the Legal Services Commission says a Queensland complaint or investigation can be about.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Queensland
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Queensland.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a complaint or investigation matter in Queensland is about a lawyer, a law practice employee, or a person said to be operating unlawfully, and the file needs the Commission's published categories.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
The tool may place each allegation against the definition the Commission publishes, and the lawyer decides the characterisation.
AI may
- Record which class of person the Commission lists is said to be the subject.
- Set out the Commission's definitions of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct without applying them.
- Record the four step names on the process page, and leave the content of each step unread.
- Note whether the matter began as a complaint or as an investigation the Commissioner initiated.
AI must not
- Do not decide that conduct is unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct.
- Do not describe what happens inside each of the four process steps. Those step pages were not opened.
- Do not cite a section of the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld). The Act was not opened.
- Do not use the Uniform Law definitions. This note is the Queensland Commission's page.
The lawyer checks
- Read the current complaints page before the definitions are used in advice.
- Open the four step pages before any deadline or submission is planned. They were not opened.
- Confirm the subject falls within a class the Commission lists.
- Keep the response to the complaint out of this checklist.
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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