NSW barrister sexually harassed law students – Lawyers Weekly

Charles Waterstreet, a barrister who does not currently hold a practising certificate, breached the Uniform Barrister Rules by sexually harassing a law student who worked for him, a woman who interviewed for a job with him, and a legal assistant in an elevator.

Although the conduct amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct – and professional misconduct when taken together – the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) declined to find Waterstreet is not a fit and proper person to engage in legal practice.

Senior member Harry Dixon and general member Mary Bolt said the conduct was a “product of Waterstreet’s then undiagnosed, and therefore poorly controlled, bipolar II disorder, in combination with being an expression of some of his personality traits”.

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