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Antonnette Haughton Cardenas

JurisdictionJamaica
BodyGeneral Legal Council — Disciplinary Committee (GLC)
Professionattorney
Case number2 of 2006
DateDecember 08, 2012
OutcomeFined

Allegation / charges

Fined | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered December 08, 2012. View PDF DECISION OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT No. No.2 of 2006 IN THE MATTER of a complaint by DOTLYN GORDON against ANTONNETTE HAUGHTON-CARDENAS, an …

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

SanctionFine
FineJMD 500,000
CostsJMD 50,000
Dishonesty foundNo

The attorney was consulted around 1995 regarding a 1993 fatal accident in which the complainant's common law husband died. The attorney commenced legal action in 1999 but incorrectly named the vehicle owner, failed to name the correct owner (RST Industries), failed to commence action against the owner and driver of the other vehicle, failed to amend the claim after the defendant denied ownership, and failed to prosecute the claim. The panel found this amounted to inexcusable and deplorable negligence in breach of Canon IV(s). No finding of dishonesty was made. The attorney was fined $500,000 (to be applied as compensation to the complainant) and ordered to pay $50,000 costs to the General Legal Council.

Duties found breached:

Mitigating factors:

  • The vagaries of litigation and that recovery in the underlying claim was not guaranteed

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

  • 63 of 2009 2011-07-06 · GLC · Jamaica · Repayment ordered, Already struck off
  • 66 of 2009 2011-02-05 · GLC · Jamaica · Repayment Ordered, Struck off
  • 3 of 2010 2011-02-05 · GLC · Jamaica · Already Struck off
  • 49 of 2008 2011-01-29 · GLC · Jamaica · Repayment Ordered
  • 63 of 2009 2010-09-18 · GLC · Jamaica · Restitution ordered, Already Struck off
  • 131 of 2007 2010-05-22 · GLC · Jamaica · Fined
  • 41 of 2007 2009-07-31 · GLC · Jamaica · Struck off, Repayment Ordered
  • 45 of 2008 2009-05-12 · GLC · Jamaica · GLC Appeal allowed
  • 167 of 2003 2008-04-01 · GLC · Jamaica · Deferred (Decision Pending Attorney Response)
  • 82 of 2006 2007-12-20 · GLC · Jamaica · Appeal allowed

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Documents

Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/antonnette-haughton-cardenas-complaint-no-2-of-2006/