| Heidi Muggenthaler | Muggenthaler AND "Associates" | Erko | New South Wales | Neglects to act in the best interests of children. If you have her representing you in the Guardianship Tribunal you're screwed. |
| Heidi Muggenthaler | Works out of her house | NewtoWN | New South Wales | Hopelessly slow...doesn't look outside the square and needs to re-study her law books. K D Lang likes to dress in masculine clothing but at least she knows her craft and has common sense! |
| Anthony Autore | Autore & Associates | Wollongong | NSW | When interviewing my 17 year old daughter, he attempted to make more than friendly advances. It's commonly known that he also accepts sex as pasyment |
| Condon Charles Lawyers | | Toowoomba | QLD | Like a dog with a bone! Very good lawyers!! Knows the child protection act inside out - won't let DoCS get away with anything. |
| Maryanne Ofner | Biddulph & Salenger | Milsons Point | NSW | Maryanne acted for me for 3 years in family law proceedings. As long as I kept paying she kept stalling. When the money ran out - so did Maryanne - YOU CAN DO MUCH BETTER !!!! |
| Vera Temelkovska | Legal Aid Commission of NSW | Wollongong | NSW | This 'lawyer' was appointed ICL for my daughter who is 12. Her father has been in breach of orders that say she is to reside with me for over 4 years, and the most recent breach commenced in January. On 14 January, he tried to remove my daughter by force from his ex whom she was spending the weekend with by my arrangement. My daughter was taken to Police and she told them her father was acting 'crazy' and she did not want to go to him. He has attempted suicide previously and alluded to my daughter that he will kill himself if she does not stay with him in the past. I tried to resolve the matter in consideration of the delicacy and how my daughter would feel if he did such a thing, and in July filed my court application. It was listed in two days due to the 'urgency' and Vera was appointed ICL. the Federal Magistrate (Sexton, in Sydney) stated she had 'no intention' of reading anything until court counseling occurred and maintained my daughter in the 'care' of my estranged mother and her husband whom my daughters father 'dumped' her with when he returned on the 16 January and assaulted his ex and took Ava by force. He applied for child support two days later which I am now forced to pay. Court counseling recommended an experts report and counseling between my daughter and I due to her being in the 'care' of people who have been identified by three psychologists as instrumental in the emotional abuse of her, based on their own messages and emails which taunt me about 'losing' my daughter with smiley face icons after them. Vera has been shown these messages. My mother and her husband also got a psychologist who is a colleague of my mother husband to 'counsel' Ava for 3 months without my consent or knowledge, or involvement. This woman was ordered by the court to stop counseling my daughter due to the inappropriateness of it, and now Vera is pushing for my daughter to continue being counselled by her. The psychologists name is Narelle Pike from Shellharbour Psychological Medicine in Shellharbour NSW. Narelles boss phoned my mobile and threatened to physically assault me for making a complaint about Narelle to the HCCC, and Vera refused to acknowledge this even when I offered to obtain phone charge records to show who had called my phone that day. Despite the fact that my daughters father has breached the orders for over 4 years, has refused to allow any contact for 10 months whilst I stupidly go through the court system instead of taking matters in to my own hands, and also despite the fact that I had a hearing earlier this year for my two youngest children which culminated in a family report that was strongly in my favour and stated I should have full parental responsibility for my two youngest children (which I now have, and whose time with their father has been suspended by the court due to his ongoing behaviour), Vera is still pushing for my daughter to live with her father, who has no respect for her relationship with her mother or her siblings. I just missed my daughters 13th birthday, I have not seen or spoken to her for 10 months now, and Vera is aware I have complained about her to Legal Aid. It is a disgrace that someone who has no psychological training can refuse to acknowledge the clear evidence, the statement my daughter gave to police, the messages and emails of the parties who have her with them and who taunt me regularly about not seeing my daughter, and the advice of qualified psychologists who have viewed the correspondence and deemed these parties to be emotionally abusing my daughter. You can break the law, breach the orders, enforce a no contact situation between a mother and her child whom she raised for almost 10 years before her father first starting taking her for months at a time, and you get the support of people like Vera. She should not be allowed in public, let alone allowed to represent children. |
| Mark Whelan | Children's Law Chambers | Sydney | NSW | Mark was appointed as ICL for my two youngest children approx a year ago. My daughter has life threatening allergies and asthma and her father was refusing the advice of three doctors to remove the dog. Over the year my daughters health continued to decline, including a near fatal asthma episode in February 2010 which doctors initially thought was a cardiac problem. It turned out it was asthma after returning from her fathers. The father continued to refuse to remove the dog, and he continued denying her allergy to dog and asthma despite her allergy tests for over 7 years showing dog allergy. The father wanted to get 'equal time' and offered to get rid of the dog if he was given it, however equal time had already been deemed impossible by the court. The father then pushed for my daughter to have an inhalation challenge where she would inhale dog allergen which he knew I would try to avoid and again offered to not push for it if he was given equal time. The top allergy specialist in the country wrote a report that said it was unadvisable to do the challenge and to deliberatly provoke the asthma of a child who almost died from asthma only months before. Mark Whelan said nothing at court to protect my daughter, and the inhalation challenge proceeded. My daughter had a strong asthma and allergic reaction to the challenge at hospital and was terrified. the father finally removed her dog and within a few weeks her asthma improved (she has not had a significant episode since) and her dog allergy reading has gone down. My daughters immunologist and paediatrician both said my daughter would have strong resentment over having to be put through this, and they were right. The family report went in my favour and I have full parental responsibility for my children. Due to the fathers involvement in the removal of my oldest child by her father (by force against court orders) earlier this year, the resentment in both my children has grown. they have both been diagnosed with anxiety disorders by their psychologist due to this involvement and the fathers proven behaviour, and the children stopped going to the father in July, at which time I asked him to work with their psychologist and mediate to improve their relationship with him. Mark Whelan has referred to me as a 'bitch' in his correspondence within his firm, and i have never complained about him nor spoken directly to him. it took him over 8 weeks to even see my children and i have only ever been polite to him. This man cannot stand being proven wrong or disagreed with, and as such even though my childrens father has been distressing his children, and caused their anxiety disorder and I have worked to try and repair their relationship with him, Mark continues to blatantly support the father and say his time should recommence asap unsupervised. The children are terrified and their psychologist has recommended supervised contact for the first few visits and the father admitted in court a week ago via his lawyer that he will only stop exposing my children to the situation involving their sister (which has been identified as the biggest factor causing their distress) for a few weeks before again commencing the destructive behaviour. Again, Mark was privy to this comment and yet ignores it. At the initial mention Mark was advised that I had called DOCS and also spoken to the childrens psychologist and stated later that he could find no record of a DOCS call. He had already been emailed the DOCS reference number, name of the person I spoke to and the date and time of the report. He was again emailed this information before the last phone mention and again claimed he could find no record of me contacting DOCS, implying that I had falsified this when it can be proven I had not. This man plays out his matters based on what he thinks of the parents, not the interests of the child. He favours men openly and has a disregard for the evidence in front of him. should be kept from children. |
| Mark Wheelan | Childrens law chambers | Pitt St Sydney | NSW | This lawyer ignores evidence, and will allow children to suffer if he decides he does not like a parent. favours fathers. |
| Patrick W Dwyer | | Northcote/Melbourne | VIC | Did little case preparation; did not follow client's instructions; forced client to plead guilty to something they were innocent of via improper coercion, for which they were wrongfully imprisoned for 4 years; gave advice that was in his own interests and against client's interests; lied to client about legal aid funding being denied when it in fact had been granted; fabricated accounts and backdated them; caused client's Appeal to miscarry by writing lies to the judges;..... |
| Paul Etherington | Etherington Solicitors | North Sydney | NSW | Liar Liar Liar Liar Liar would never recommend him to nobody GROSSLY OVERCHARGES WOULDN'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN WITH COMPLAINTS AGAINST HIM |
| Loch Van Den Berg | Ex Eakin McCaffrey Cox | Sydney CBD | NSW | Ran a case for 6 months that the Court dismissed because it had no standing and unwarranted costs over $50,000 for his client. Case had to be transfered to another law firm to rectify. Under no circumstances would I use this solicitor |
| Martin Francis English | Ex English Kearns | Sydney | NSW | STILL PRACTISING - BEWARE! Misled clients, engaged in unethical conduct, failed to attend court hearing and clients case was struck out, failed to account, consented to indemnity order without clients consent, misled or lied to clients. |
| Sarah Harrod | from home | Petersham | NSW | Is part of the corrupt "club" |
| James McCaffrey | James McCaffrey & Associates | PARRAMATTA | NSW | Dangerous, part of corruption |
| Jacqui Griffin | self | Parramatta | NSW | Is subservient to DOCS & corruption, does no work for her client |
| Mark Whelan | self | Sydney CBD | NSW | Is corrupt, uses aggressive tactics, has verbally assaulted clients & his own staff |
| Alex Ronanye | Ronayne Solicitors | North Sydney | NSW | Corrupt, conflict of interest, misconduct, professional negligece |
| Di Foster | Farrell Lusher & Associates | Wagga Wagga | NSW | Worked with docs; gave bad legal advice; lied |
| samar sing-panwar | conditsis law firm | Gosford | NSW | I rang samar sing-panwar today as he had a high rating on this site. He is obviously a very good lawyer and his parents are also very good doctors who have been on the central coast for over 30 years. BUT he is very expensive and does not do legal aid. At least he was honest and said he would charge a lot and took the time to make some phone calls to refer me to barristers in Sydney who would do my care matter cheaper than him. If I could afford him I would have used him as he seemed honest and didnt care much for beuraocracy. |
| Adrian Williams | barrister | Sydney | NSW | Terrifying presentation in court |
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