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Hovan, George Leslie

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Hovan & Co

Case number[2003] NSWADT 208

Date08-Sep-2003

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. Fail to provide accounts<BR/>2. Fail to disclose costs<BR/>3. Fail to respond to letters<BR/>4. Fail to keep accounts<BR/>5. Fail to comply with request of Inspector<BR/>6. Breach of Section.61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys<BR/>7. Breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - keeping of trust accounts <BR/>8. Fail to communicate<BR/>9. Fail to carry out work assigned<BR/>10. Fail to pay third party<BR/>11. Fail to appear at hearing<BR/>12. Prefer own interests to those of others — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The text lists twelve heads of charge amounting to professional misconduct, including failures relating to accounts, costs disclosure, communication, carrying out work, paying a third party, breaches of Sections 61 and 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 regarding trust moneys/accounts, and preferring own interests to those of others. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction, fine, or costs figures are 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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