Vo, Dung Quoc

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Vo Lawyers

Date27-Apr-2020

HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales

OutcomeCancellation of Practising Certificate for year 2019-2020 and is not entitled to apply for a practising certificate for a period of five years Manager appointed of the law practice known as Vo Lawyers for a period of two years $0.00 Manager Appointed: Yes Manager Appointed

Allegation / charges

The practising certificate of Mr Vo was cancelled under section 82 and 83 of the Uniform Law on the grounds the Council had formed the reasonable belief the solicitor is unable to fulfill the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner, as a result of a lack of honesty and integrity arising from conduct including: (i) Failure to account for trust money and its apparent misappropriation, or failing to report an apparent misappropriation by a staff member to the Law Society; (ii) Failing to discharge his tortious and fiduciary duties to his clients; (iii) Failure to be honest in all dealings in the course of legal practice; (iv) Abandoning his practice, demonstrating a reckless disregard for the interests of his clients; (v) Failure to respond to the Law

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

SanctionRevocation

Dishonesty foundNo

The Council cancelled Mr Vo's practising certificate under sections 82 and 83 of the Uniform Law, having formed a reasonable belief that he could not fulfil the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner due to a lack of honesty and integrity. The conduct included apparent misappropriation of trust money and failure to report it, breach of fiduciary and tortious duties, dishonesty in legal practice, abandonment of his practice with reckless disregard for clients, and failure to respond to the Law Society. The text is truncated and no tribunal finding of dishonesty, fine, or costs is stated.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=b55ba7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e