Keddies Lawyer Allegedly Incurred Unnecessary Costs

David Marocchi, about whom we have previously reported, has emerged as a national pariah as new allegations threaten to blacken the integrity of the wider legal profession, both domestically and abroad.

The same man who once yelled to arresting police officers ‘Im a lawyer… I dont have to do anything’, before allegedly assaulting the female officer with a violent kick to her left breast, is now embroiled in new scandal. In the latest allegation, Marocchi is alleged to have needlessly incurred costs for a disfigured, injured client so that he could enjoy a junket to Hong Kong.  A senior counsel has argued that:

The irresistible inference is that they [Keddies Lawyers] have gone over [to Hong Kong] but in doing so have cost this particular client $20,000… they have run up unnecessary costs by refusing to accept the offer in Sydney but settling [after two days of hearing] for $60,000 in her hand.

The client, Ms Yuan has since lodged a complaint with the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner, having learned that Keddies charged in excess of $260,000 in legal fees and disbursements. The client’s compensation amounted to just over one-fifth of the $320,000 paid by the an insurer in the case which arose from permanent injuries sustained in a fall on a tour bus travelling on the Pacific Highway.

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