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Mcauley, Lachlan Mcdonald

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Lachlan McAuley Lawyers
Date15-Aug-2013
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales
OutcomeConditions on Practising Certificate Reprimand $0.00 About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

1. Breached Section 254 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 2. Breached Section 255 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 3. Breached Section 260 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 4. Caused a deficiency in the trust account or trust ledger account 5. Breached Section 263 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 6. Breached Section 264 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 — A reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have breached multiple trust account provisions of the Legal Profession Act 2004 (Sections 254, 255, 260, 263 and 264) and caused a deficiency in the trust account, amounting to a reasonable likelihood of a finding of unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty and no specific sanction detailed in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=0c5aa7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e