Decision record

Zhukovska, Myroslava

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionsolicitor — McMahon Todd Pty Ltd

Case number[2019] NSWCATOD 66

Date08-May-2019

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Fine Reprimand The lawyer's local practising certificate is cancelled and any new practising certificate shall not be issued before the end of 12 months from the date of these orders. $9,000.00

Allegation / charges

Professional Misconduct 1. Acting in a conflict of interests 2. Failure to obtain instructions before making unsecured loan from client's funds 3. Charging excessive legal costs 4. Preferring own interests to those of client Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct 1. Lack of competence and diligence (estate planning) 2. Breach of LPA s254 - certain money to be deposited in a trust account 3. Borrowing of funds from client 4. Fail to disclose receipt of trust money — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The decision records findings of professional misconduct (conflict of interest, unsecured loan from client funds without instructions, excessive legal costs, preferring own interests to client) and unsatisfactory professional conduct (lack of competence/diligence in estate planning, breach of LPA s254 trust account requirement, borrowing client funds, failing to disclose receipt of trust money). No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction, fine or costs are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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