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Former top barrister spared jail after trying to overcharge clients
Former barrister Norman O'Bryan, pictured in April, was ordered to complete 600 hours of community work. (AAP: Jay Kogler)
Former barrister Norman O'Bryan has been spared jail after he was caught trying to overcharge clients for fees.
It was part of a scandal that a judge once described as "one of the darkest chapters" in Victorian legal history.
O'Bryan, who hails from an esteemed legal family, will have to complete community service over the next four years.
In 2012, Norman O'Bryan offered to help investors and retirees who had lost their life savings through no fault of their own.
At the time, O'Bryan was a Victorian lawyer held in the highest regard.
Disgraced silk gets 600 hours community service for pensioner fraud
Disgraced former silk Norman O’Bryan has avoided jail and will instead perform 600 hours of community service for trying to deceive his retiree clients into paying grossly inflated legal fees.
Once the blue-blood star of Melbourne’s legal world, O’Bryan pleaded guilty to attempted fraud for trying to gouge his class action clients, who were suing the collapsed lender Banksia Securities to recover some of their retirement savings.
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Top silk Norman O’Bryan avoids jail for attempted overcharging fraud
Once-revered Melbourne barrister Norman O’Bryan will not spend a day in jail after being convicted of attempting to defraud a group of retirees he was representing out of millions of dollars.
The former Queen’s Counsel, from one of Victoria’s most esteemed legal families, was sentenced to a community corrections order of four years in the County Court on Thursday after he was caught overcharging members of the Banksia Securities class action, many of whom had already lost their life savings.
O’Bryan had faced up to five years in jail. He pleaded guilty to attempted fraud last month.
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