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Lu, Jonathan Hai Song

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — SHL & Associates Pty Ltd
Case number[2025] NSWCATOD 11
Date31-Jan-2025
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division On 27 October 2023 the Solicitor applied to NCAT for an administrative review of the decision On 31 January 2025, NCAT affirmed the decision of the Council of the Law Society of New South Wales on 26 October 2023
OutcomeLawyer to undertake and complete further ethics education Reprimand $0.00 Citation: <h4><a href=" https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/194b4802ef172fb564f676c8&quot ; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(3, 87, 155);">Lu v Council of the Law Society of New South Wales [2025] NSWCATOD 11</a></h4> About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

The Respondent Solicitor acted in a conflict of interest in lending money to his client without the fully informed consent of the client  On 26 October 2023, the Council of the Law Society of New South Wales made a finding of Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct and Mr Lu was reprimanded. On 27 October 2023, Mr Lu commenced proceedings in the Tribunal to seek administrative review of the decision. — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionReprimand
Dishonesty foundNo

The Respondent Solicitor, Mr Lu, acted in a conflict of interest by lending money to his client without the client's fully informed consent. On 26 October 2023 the Council of the Law Society of New South Wales made a finding of Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct and reprimanded him. On 27 October 2023 Mr Lu commenced proceedings in the Tribunal seeking administrative review of the decision.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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