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Downie, Daniel Mcgregor

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — (Formerly) Downie & Co
Case number[2014] NSWCATOD 60
Date23-May-2014
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Breaches of Section 255 LPA 2004 - disbursing trust money without authority<BR/>2. Breaches of Section 264 LPA 2004 - failing to keep trust records in a way that discloses true position<BR/>3. Misappropriation<BR/>4. Causing a deficiency in the trust account<BR/>5. Breach of Rule 12 of the former Solicitors Rules (1995) - borrowing from client<BR/>6. Failing to pay superannuation entitlements for five (5) years — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The text lists alleged breaches including unauthorised disbursement of trust money, failing to keep proper trust records, misappropriation, causing a trust account deficiency, borrowing from a client, and failing to pay superannuation for five years. No tribunal findings, dishonesty determination, or sanction details are provided in the text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=b158a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e