Oppressed and Vilified: Greensborough Lawyer as Case Study of Sole Practitioners Targeted by the Victorian Legal Services Board

The case of Thomas Flitner exposes fundamental deficiencies in Victoria’s regulatory framework for the legal profession, revealing how statutory powers designed to protect consumers and maintain professional standards can be weaponised to destroy careers and livelihoods without meaningful oversight or due process. This report analyses systemic failures that enabled the Victorian Legal Services Board [VLSB] to dismantle a twenty‑year‑old law practice through external intervention mechanisms that, it is argued, violated core principles of administrative law, natural justice, and procedural fairness.

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