Lee Scott Tupper

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

Lee Scott Tupper, a Vancouver securities/corporate lawyer called in 1977, entered a Rule 3-7.1 consent agreement admitting professional misconduct for disbursing about $61,463 of investor funds from his firm's trust account between January 2019 and June 2020 in circumstances where he had not provided legal services relating to the disbursements. There was no finding of dishonesty and no suspicious circumstances. He agreed to a two-week suspension. No prior conduct record.

Duties found breached:

• No improper use of client money

Mitigating factors:

• No prior professional conduct record
• Disbursements not made in suspicious circumstances and no suggestion of inappropriate corporate use of funds
• Cooperated via Agreed Statement of Facts and consent agreement