Decision record

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

Allegation / charges

1. Breaches of section 254 LPA 2004 - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account 2. Breaches of section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money 3. Breaches of section 260 LPA 2004 - Intermixing money 4. Breaches of section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records 5. Inappropriately borrowed moneys from a client 6. Misled persons by falsely declaring certain trust monies were held in investments on behalf of a client 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 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 — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was charged with professional misconduct arising from multiple breaches of trust account provisions of the Legal Profession Act 2004 (ss 254, 255, 260, 264), inappropriately borrowing money from a client, misleading a client and a barrister about trust monies, and breaching a Supreme Court order forbidding disposal of property. The provided extract lists the grounds but does not state any express finding of dishonesty or 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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