NSW Law Society’s Shadow Process Outside the Law, and the Dangers of False Records Used to Target and Render 2 Lawyers “Unfit” Without Lawful Process or Determination.
- Odtojan Bryl Lawyers
- Sep 8
- 8 min read
Updated: Sep 17
Law Society's Undisclosed Shadow Process Outside the Law
Under the Uniform Law, the Law Society of NSW is not permitted to invent its own internal processes outside the statutory framework. Yet that is exactly what happened to us.
As regulatory officers exercising delegated statutory functions, Ms Valerie Griswold, Director, Professional Standards Department (PSD), and Ms Nadya Haddad, PSD Deputy Director, were bound to act independently and impartially, and to follow the clear, transparent process set out under Chapter 5 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Uniform Law). Instead, they created an undisclosed and irregular internal process that exists nowhere in the law.
This undisclosed process is contrary to the NSW Legal regulators' brochures, flowcharts, annual reports to Parliament, and the processes published on their website, all of which confirm that complaints and disciplinary matters must follow Chapter 5 procedures, with clear categorisation (consumer or disciplinary matter), proper notice, and defined allegations and legal process under the designated tribunal, NSW Civil and Admistrtive Tribunal (NCAT).
They had a duty to disclose and give proper notice to all parties subject to processes under the Uniform Law.
We were never the subject of any disciplinary action, and throughout their undisclosed process, we were never given notice of what process they were conducting under the law.
Despite repeated requests for clarification, they ignored us entirely. They never answered the matters we raised, including our correspondence about their conduct, the process, jurisdiction, or even the receipt of payment in May 2024 for our renewal applications for practising certificates and memberships. Those payments were taken, yet never acknowledged by the Law Society. We received nothing for the payments we made to the Law Society.
Instead, vague and shifting allegations were relied upon: first “misconduct,” then “alleged misconduct,” and finally nothing at all. Despite this, on 30 May 2025, they issued a Section 45 certificate rendering us “unfit”, based solely on their personal views and unfounded allegations.
They also purported to represent that there was a referral from the NSW Court of Appeal. That referral was plainly a disciplinary matter that was never investigated; those referrals related to three separate proceedings simply disappeared. There were no case numbers relating to three proceedings, no investigation, no reference to any evidence or court documents. There was no outcome. The only thing they relied upon was judicial commentaries in those NSWCA judgments: no evidence, no transcript, nothing else.
Usurpation of the Roles of Parliament, NCAT, Authorities and the Courts
This was not regulation. It was usurpation. It was corruption. It was unlawful.
They replaced NCAT, denying us our statutory right to independent legal proceedings.
They replaced Parliament, inventing procedures that do not exist in the Uniform Law.
They replaced the courts, treating judicial commentary as if it were lawful findings of misconduct.
They replaced the police and proper authorities, refusing to refer offences under Section 465 of the Uniform Law. Instead, they simply quoted “suspected offences” in their decisions without taking any action, while stating that the lawyers were the ones “claiming to be victims.”
Later, after unlawfully stripping us of our practising and falsely recording our unfitness with no breaches, nothing proven and without any lawful basis or determination, the Law Society, Ms Griswold, and Ms Haddad escalated further: they made threats, demanded deletion of evidence, and reframed themselves as the “victims” of the very lawyers who they had unlawfully targeted and stripped thier practising rights, and who public interest disclosures about their corrupt and unlawful acts.
The Dangers of False Records in Judgments and Legal Documents
False records on judgments or documents with legal effect, such as a Section 45 certificate, are dangerous tools in the hands of regulators acting corruptly and without accountability.
In our case, false judicial records created in NSW Court of Appeal judgments were weaponised. Rather than investigate or refer these matters to proper authorities, the Law Society relied on those tainted records as though they were lawful findings. This was a breach of statutory duty and an obstruction of justice.
When notified of serious suspected offences against the administration of justice, the regulators ignored them. Instead, they perpetuated the false records by embedding them into their own decisions. This demonstrates how dangerous false records are when regulators solidify and transfer fraudulent entries into new legal instruments.
Judges even made material representations and “evidence” for three defendants who never appeared in court nor gave evidence. This undermined the integrity of the entire interlocutory process and of their own judgments.
Regulators, who could have easily discovered these false records by checking court transcripts and documents, instead ignored our notices and evidence. Rather than correct the record, they targeted us, the very witnesses and victims.
They had every opportunity to investigate, disclose, and correct the false records. Instead, they chose to embed them further, weaponising them in decisions like the Section 45 certificate.
False records, once introduced, contaminate every judgment and document that follows. They corrupt the legal process itself, destroy livelihoods, and erode the rule of law, bringing the legal system and the profession into disrepute.
A Coordinated Act
This did not happen in isolation. From as early as 2016, when we first reported misconduct and suspected criminal offences involving Piper Alderman, Credit Corp, Certus Partners and others, both the OLSC and the Law Society closed ranks and protected those we reported.
The Attorney General and MP Hugh McDermott joined in, fabricating “alleged prior misconduct” and claiming there was an investigation. Yet when asked to substantiate these claims in November 2024, both have remained non-responsive to this day.
NSW Court of Appeal Justices made false records to target a party, witnesses, and victims, protecting the alleged fraudulent conduct of Mr Nicholas Ford, Mr Thomas Glynn, and Senior Counsel Mr Miles Condon, as well as further acts of misleading the court and tampering with court documents by their legal representatives.
One example: Mr Anthony McInerney SC was recorded in court transcripts laughing when Mr Bryl raised the serious issue of him misleading the court. McInerney created a narrative directly contrary to his own client’s written appeal advice, where Mr Condon SC had expressly relied on a contract. McInerney stated at the bar table that the contract was based on secondary documents, evidence never recorded nor represented by his own client.
In the NSWCA interlocutory leave hearing, Justices Leeming, Kirk, Basten, and White made referrals based on a false narrative that the claim had no basis. These referrals were recorded in judgments by ambush, with substantial portions unsupported by what transpired in court or by the court transcript.
Those referrals were then weaponised, relying only on judges’ commentary, as if they were findings, to justify “views of unfitness.” Nothing was proven. No breaches. No due process. No lawful determination. Just the mere view of regulators acting in self-interest and self-preservation.
This was a coordinated act to target two innocent solicitors and destroy a law firm that lawfully reported corruption, gave notices, and accessed the courts.
Kafkaesque Maze
What we experienced is a Kafkaesque maze, a closed loop of commentary, false records, and shadow processes, designed not to protect the public, but to silence whistleblowers and erase witnesses and victims.
This is not the Rule of Law. It is lawlessness.
Every lawyer and every member of the public is at risk. Our case proves that NSW is facing a legal crisis. Regulatory bodies have been compromised. Corrupt officers are weaponising their powers, abusing them to target those who pose a danger to their misconduct. They are operating in self-interest and self-preservation.
They will target and frame anyone, abusing their authority to shield those they choose to protect from accountability.
Who Has Been Protected
For perspective, the following list is not exhaustive but identifies individuals and organisations with an interest in silencing witnesses and victims of the fraud stemming from the Credit Corp/Piper Alderman matters, where fictional credit contracts were filed and judgments obtained under false premises:
Piper Alderman, its lawyers and employees impersonating lawyers
Credit Corp, its lawyers, and Certus Partners
Carlos Toda, who filed claims and recorded fictional credit contracts to mislead the court and obtain financial benefit
Local Court Magistrate Sharon Freund and NSWCA Justices Leeming, Kirk, Basten, and White, whose false records were reported
Barristers: Nicolas Ford, Miles Condon SC, Sebastian Hartford Davis, Anthony McInerney SC, James Willis, Bernard Lloyd, and Ann Horvath SC
Attorney General Michael Daley
DLA Piper, lawyers, and its Partner James Berg, who tampered with court documents with Mr McInenery and Winnie Ms Liu of New Chambers. Tampered court documents, which include Ms Odtojan’s affidavit and exhibits. They removed and inserted documents, reducing an exhibit of approximately 300 pages down to about 15 pages. These acts amount to serious conduct constituting indictable offences under the Crimes Act. Instead of investigating, Justices Leeming and Kirk concealed these acts, made false records, and targeted the witness, victims, and party to the proceedings.
MP Hugh McDermott
Former Attorney General Mark Speakman
Former Legal Services Commissioner John McKenzie
Costs Assessors: Peter Rosier, John Sharpe, Mark Campbell, and Terence Stern
Cost Assessment Matters: Chris D’Eath and Brendan Bellach
Law Society PSD officers: Ms Nadya Haddad, Ms Valerie Griswold, Law Society President Jennifer Ball, and 15 Council members (including former president Brett McGrath)
Legal Services Commissioner Samantha Gulliver and the OLSC
Credit Corp Group, Credit Corp Services Pty Ltd, and its incorporated law firms, filing claims under fictional contracts nationwide in civil courts
Credit Corp CEO and Board of Directors, given written notice of their fraud in court proceedings, yet continuing to ignore those notices to this day
The above list shows those who have implicated themselves by joining in to conceal, solidify, or perpetuate fraud stemming from the original Local Court case Odtojan v Credit Corp Services Pty Ltd.
We discovered systemic claims filed under fictional contracts, using courts to obtain unlawful judgments and financial benefit without any legal basis. This demonstrates how dangerous false records are when embedded in legal instruments. Livelihoods, families, and businesses are destroyed. The effects are generational, creating debt slavery and eroding society as a whole.
Important Note:
This is why we are making all these details public. Once these individuals have implicated themselves, they can only act in self-preservation and self-interest. This is why we’re putting these names and actions in the public record, so no one can conceal them. Despite the serious nature of their offences, we have been consistently muted and ignored, while they operate above the law. I have personally witnessed them dismissing the gravity of these actions with apparent assurance of protection. This case highlights their corruption and the need for reform. They cannot remain in office, as their integrity is irreversibly compromised.
Call to Action
Every lawyer, every regulator, and every member of Parliament should be alarmed. If regulators can bypass NCAT, erase the law, and destroy careers on mere opinion, then no lawyer in this state is safe.
This is why we speak up. Our case is important, our evidence and reports are recorded, and our calls for action have been made to the NSW Premier and beyond.
We are calling for reform and accountability. The Rule of Law is being eroded. Lawlessness is being fostered by the very bodies designed to uphold the law.
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Disclaimer: This post is based on lived experience, true events, and documented evidence, including court records and official correspondence. The information contained here reflects that evidence to date and may be subject to change or amendment as further information becomes available.
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