Lenworth A. Burke
Allegation / charges
Fined | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered July 28, 2018. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 157/2017 IN THE MATTER OF GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL (NOVAR PATRICK MCDONALD) and LENWORTH BURKE an …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The respondent attorney Lenworth Burke admitted to breaching the Legal Profession (Accounts and Records) Regulations for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 (contrary to regulations 16(1) and 17). The Committee found these breaches amounted to professional misconduct under section 12(1)(a) of the Legal Profession Act. He was ordered to pay a fine of $50,000 for each of the three years (totaling $150,000) plus costs of $50,000, amounting to $200,000, which he paid on 28 July 2018.
Duties found breached:
Mitigating factors:
- Respondent admitted the breaches
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_fine_amount=150000"]