Arnaldo Alphanso Brown

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

The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council heard a complaint by Allan Wood Q.C. against attorney Arnaldo Brown. Through counsel, the respondent admitted breaches of the Legal Profession (Accounts and Records) Regulations for eight years (2002, 2004, 2007, 2012-2016) contrary to sections 16(1) and 17. The Committee found these breaches amounted to professional misconduct under section 12(1)(a) of the Legal Profession Act. It ordered a fine of $30,000 for each year in breach, plus costs of $60,000, totaling $300,000 payable to the General Legal Council.

Duties found breached:

• File and record retention
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Mitigating factors:

• Respondent admitted the breaches through counsel

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_fine_amount=240000"]