Jerome Alexander Dixon

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

The Complainant attorney alleged that the Attorney, Jerome Dixon, failed to honour professional undertakings given to secure payment of a judgment debt owed by his client Cavell Qualis. The Attorney did not participate in the hearing. The Panel found the December 4, 2015 undertaking (to pay $4,786,329.80 on completion of a property sale) was conditional and not breached, as there was no evidence the sale completed. However, the Panel found the August 31, 2016 undertaking was breached: the Attorney obtained the duplicate certificate of title from the Complainant, undertook to pay $2,500,000.00 and not to deal with the title prejudicially, but then transferred the Property by gift to a third party on March 13, 2017 without paying the balance. The Panel found the Attorney guilty of misconduct in a professional respect for failing to fulfil his professional undertaking and failing to maintain the honour and dignity of the profession. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and the decision (dated October 1, 2018) records only the guilty finding without stating any sanction, fine, or costs.

Duties found breached:

• Uphold public trust in the profession
• Honour professional undertakings

Aggravating factors:

• Attorney's active involvement in transferring the Property (witnessed signatures and paid for expedited registration), directly prejudicing the Complainant's clients
• Failure to participate in the hearing or provide promised medical report
• More than 2 years elapsed with no payment or contact
• Approximately $2.5 million remained unpaid to elderly clients