White, Geoffrey Allan

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionsolicitor — (Formerly) Sole Principal of White & Downey (2003)

Case number[2011] NSWADT 10

Date19-Jan-2011

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Misappropriation of trust moneys 2. Failure to account (x2) 3. Wilful breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act, 1987 - handling of trust moneys (x16) 4.Wilful breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act, 1987 - keeping of trust accounts (x14) 5. Borrowing from client in breach of Rule 12 of the Revised Professional Conduct and Practice Rules (x2) 6. Causing deficiency in trust account (x3) — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner faced particulars including misappropriation of trust moneys, failure to account, wilful breaches of Sections 61 and 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 concerning handling and keeping of trust accounts, borrowing from clients in breach of Rule 12, and causing trust account deficiencies, all constituting professional misconduct. The provided text contains no express finding of dishonesty and does not state the sanction imposed.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

Decision 2003-07-17 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Refusal to issue Practising Certificate $0.00 About About…

Matched by respondent name — may include a different person with the same name.

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=f158a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e