Melbourne lawyer Dean Hadjina steals $482,000 from widow who lost husband in workplace truck crash

Hadjina started her career as a workplace and employment lawyer in 2002, then moved to the personal injury law and opened Dean’s of Law in 2019.

In June that year, he received an application certificate that allowed him to deal with confidence money and opened two NAB accounts, where he was the only controller.

Hamill, Marwisamhol, in 2018 with a husband who migrated to Australia with a citizen of Myanmar, he said.

He only spoke limited English, completed the reading up to the 7th year, and before his husband had no participation or knowledge of the law profession before his death.

Marwisamhol’s husband on September 18, 2018, 34 years old Joseph Lian HinMetropol was killed by a falling crane while working for communication service.

Afterwards, his wife was given the right to make a weekly retirement and collective payment claim.

Her husband’s family told the widow to be Hadjina’s lawyer and asked a friend to help him translate his conversation because of his limited English.

Ham He asked him how much it was and told him to save money because he would make many other claims, ”Hamill said.

The court shown documents that Marwisamhol said he never signed later. He claims that he never allowed Hadjina to make money on his behalf.

When he bought $ 644,000, his late husband’s employer also accepted him to pay a pension and reasonable legal costs, but the court heard, but Hadjina never informed him about the amount he would receive and decided whether he would accept the offer.

The insurer’s bank control was later sent to Hadjina’s company.

Hamill said Hadjina was late to meetings and hurriedly hurried, and then told him to meet him in the city because “higher people” wanted to meet him, including someone who would pay the biggest amount of money ”.

Marwisamhol never met anyone.

Before he was told to be in the courtroom, he remembered that he was left in a waiting room.

Later, Hadjina was asked to pay more money.

Hamill said that Hadjina was said to have been looking for a $ 3.8 million damage for the victim for him and that he would remain from the court lists for the protection of his name.

The prosecutor’s office said that these are imaginary legal proceedings. During this time, Hadjina asked her sacrifice to pay her more money.

In August 2021, the Board of Legal Services withdrew Hadjina’s application certificate.

Loading

Defense lawyer James Anderson said that there was a high degree of embarrassment, guilt, anxiety and depression for the fraud case, and Hadjina lived with her parents and her close family.

Anderson said that 47 -year -old Hadjina hired her “head in the sand ve for most of the prosecution, and that she told her family about the court on the day she was faced with bail.

Hamill said Hadjina was trying to delay the case over and over again. When the prosecutor contacted the police in February and March 2024, he said he had given various excuses, including the disease to meet with the authorities.

When he refused to meet, he was accused and then faced four administrative hearings before a magistaker and said he needed postponement to find a lawyer. Later, it appeared three more times in the Supreme Court of Appeals.

Ham Nothing was done in total, Ham said Hamill.

During these hearings, Hamill said that Hadjina’s family members sold property to help and applied for judicial assistance incorrectly. This year he was found guilty of theft and a large number of financial advantage through deception.

“He just told his wife what was going on this morning. [This case] It will involve the implementation of an important imprisonment, Ham Hamill said on Friday.

For these reasons, the prosecutor’s office tried to cancel the bail, but Justice Rita Incherti allowed Hadjina to remain in the community for a few more weeks.