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Stuart, Andrew Graham

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Stuart & Mills
Case number[2019] NSWCATOD 108
Date05-Jul-2019
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Misappropriated trust funds</p><p>2. Breached section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money</p><p>3. Breached section 263 LPA 2004 - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities</p><p>4. Breached Rule 11 of the Revised Professional Conduct &amp; Practice Rules 1995 - A practitioner receiving a benefit under a Will or other instrument</p><p>5. Made payments without authority from monies held on trust in Estate matters</p><p>6. Breached an order of the Supreme Court</p> — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct comprising misappropriation of trust funds, breaches of sections 255 and 263 of the Legal Profession Act 2004, breach of Rule 11 of the Revised Professional Conduct & Practice Rules 1995, making unauthorised payments from estate trust monies, and breaching a Supreme Court order. The provided text does not state an express finding of dishonesty nor a sanction.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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