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Terepo, Sesilia Fehoko

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — LMJ Lawyers
Case number[2018] NSWCATOD 106
Date02-Jul-2018
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Order recommending removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Australian Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Misappropriation, caused deficiency in trust funds and breaches of section 255, 264 and 263 LPA 2004 - relating to trust monies</p><p>2. Breach of section 255A LPA 2004 - manner of withdrawal of trust money from general trust account</p><p>3. Failure to comply with a requirement under section 371 LPUL (NSW) and failure to assist an investigator in the investigation of a complaint</p><p>4. Breach of Clause 66(2) Legal Profession Regulation 2005 - payment by electronic funds transfer</p> — Grounds 1, 2 & 3 - Professional Misconduct Ground 4 - Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct in respect of Grounds 1, 2 and 3 (misappropriation and trust account breaches under the LPA 2004, and failure to comply with an investigator's requirement under the LPUL (NSW)) and unsatisfactory professional conduct in respect of Ground 4 (breach of Clause 66(2) of the Legal Profession Regulation 2005 regarding electronic funds transfer). No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction is stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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