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Galloway, Brett William

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Galloways Solicitors & Attorneys
Case number[2012] NSWADT 176
Date23-Jul-2012
HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
OutcomeAdditional Orders made by the Tribunal (see Tribunal decision) Costs Fine Reprimand $8,000.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Breaches of Section 262 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - deficiency in trust account</p><p>2. Failure to report Trust irregularities to the Society contrary to Section 263(i) of the Legal Profession Act 2004</p><p>3. Causing unidentified transactions to be posted to a miscellaneous Trust ledger</p><p>4. Unauthorised payments from the Trust account to the office account</p><p>5. Failure to implement a compliant trust account record</p><p>6. Failure to deposit transit money received in cash into its trust account</p><p>7. Failure to lodge an External Examiners Report within the required period</p><p>8. Failure to report to Austrac significant cash transactions</p><p>9. Failure to supervise staff</p><p>10. Failure to pay superannuation entitlements and annual leave entitlements and provide a Group Certificate to an employee</p> — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct arising from multiple trust account deficiencies, unauthorised transfers from trust to office account, failure to report trust irregularities and significant cash transactions, inadequate record-keeping and supervision, and failure to meet employee entitlements. No express finding of dishonesty is stated, and no sanction, fine or costs figures are recorded 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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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=9d59a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e