Duren, Lillian

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionsolicitor — Zedonga Enterprises Pty Ltd trading as LD Lawyers

Case number[2025] NSWCATOD 75

Date17-Jun-2025

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Reprimand Solicitor to undertake and complete further legal education The solicitor must not apply for a practising certificate that would authorise her to be a principal of a law practice until after she has held five practising certificates for five separate practising certificate years that authorise her to engage in supervised legal practice; further, that she has, during that five year period practised as a legal practitioner. The solicitor is not authorised to receive or otherwise deal with trust money while holding a practising certificate other than one authorising her to be a principal of a Law Practice. At the time of entering into any contract of employment as a legal practitioner the solicitor is to inform the employer, in writing, of the Tribunal proceedings and the Reasons for Decision. $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

The solicitor contravened: (1) Section 148 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) (Uniform Law): Caused, without reasonable excuse, deficiencies in accounts held by her law practice, being the trust account and statutory deposit account. (2) Section 138(1) of the Uniform Law: Disbursed trust monies without direction of the person(s) for whom the money was held by the Law Practice. (3) Contravened section 146 of the Uniform Law: Mixed trust money with other money without the Council of the Law Society’s authority. (4) Section 154(1) of the Uniform Law: Failed to give written notice of trust account irregularities to the Council of the Law Society in circumstances where she was aware of such irregularities. — Professional Misconduct

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The solicitor was found to have engaged in professional misconduct by contravening several provisions of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), including causing trust account deficiencies, disbursing trust monies without direction, mixing trust money with other money without authority, and failing to notify the Law Society of known trust account irregularities. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and no sanction is stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

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