Lee, Pei Sze
Allegation / charges
Failed to cooperate with, and thereby obstructed, the manager appointed to the Law Practice under s 334 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Ground 1) Participated in the affairs of the Law Practice after service on her of notice of the appointment of the manager contrary to s 335(1) of the Uniform Law (Ground 2) Engaged in legal practice when she was not entitled to do so contrary to s 10 of the Uniform Law (Ground 3) Engaged in legal practice without holding professional indemnity insurance (Ground 4) Failed to maintain legal files to a standard of competence and diligence of a reasonably competent lawyer (Ground 5) Caused a Transfer to be stamped with a transaction number when she knew that duty had not been paid on the transaction, or she did not know and ought to have known whether duty had been paid on the transaction (Ground 6) Caused a Transfer to be stamped with a transaction number when she knew that the Declaration for ‘Off the Plan’ Purchases had not been completed, or she did not know and ought to have known whether the Declaration for ‘Off the Plan’ Purchases had been completed (Ground 7) Failed to comply with a notice issued to her pursuant to s 371 of the Uniform Law (Ground 8) — Professional Misconduct on the basis of each of grounds 1 to 7 individually and grounds 1 to 8 collectively; and Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct on the basis of the ground 8
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The tribunal found the practitioner guilty of professional misconduct on the basis of grounds 1-7 individually and grounds 1-8 collectively, and unsatisfactory professional conduct on ground 8, arising from failures to cooperate with an appointed manager, practising without entitlement or professional indemnity insurance, poor file maintenance, and improper stamping of transfers. No express finding of dishonesty was made. The excerpt does not record the sanction, fine, or costs imposed.
Duties found breached:
- No improper communication with the court
- Professional independence
- No unlawful discrimination or harassment
- No conflict between current clients
- Handle inadvertently received material
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
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