Decision record
William David Owen
Allegation / charges
In July 2025, the Practitioner deposited client settlement money, being trust money as defined in Schedule 2, clause 1 of the Legal Practitioner’s Act 1981 (Act), into the firm’s office account rather than the firm’s general trust account, in breach of: - Schedule 2, clause 12 of the Act; and - his obligations in relation to receipting, paying and otherwise handling of trust money as prescribed by the Legal Practitioners Regulations 2014 — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
In July 2025 the practitioner deposited client settlement money (trust money) into the firm's office account instead of the general trust account, breaching Schedule 2 clause 12 of the Legal Practitioners Act 1981 (SA) and trust-money handling obligations under the Legal Practitioners Regulations 2014. The conduct was found to be unsatisfactory professional conduct; no dishonesty was found.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Source: https://lpcc.sa.gov.au/consumers/disciplinary-register