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Adamson, Luke Jerome

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Adamson Solicitors
Case number[2019] NSWCATOD 7
Date02-Jan-2019
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Fine Removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $10,000.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Breaches of section 254 LPA 2004 - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account</p><p>2. Breaches of section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money</p><p>3. Breaches of section 260 LPA 2004 - Intermixing money</p><p>4. Breaches of section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records</p><p>5. Inappropriately borrowed moneys from a client</p><p>6. Misled persons by falsely declaring certain trust monies were held in investments on behalf of a client</p><p>7. Twice misled a barrister retained by him that monies were held in trust on account of his fees and would be paid to him</p><p>8. Breach of an order made by the Supreme Court of NSW on 1 July 2013 forbidding him from disposing of any property without leave of the Court</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 comprising multiple breaches of the trust money provisions of the Legal Profession Act 2004 (ss254, 255, 260, 264), inappropriately borrowing from a client, misleading persons by falsely declaring trust monies were held in investments, twice misleading a retained barrister about monies held for his fees, and breaching a Supreme Court order forbidding disposal of property. The excerpt provided lists the findings of professional misconduct but does not state the sanction imposed.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

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