Decision record

Lee, Siu Kay Michael

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Michael Lee Solicitor

Case number[2005] NSWADT 242

Date28-Sep-2005

HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal

OutcomeAdditional Orders made by the Tribunal (see Tribunal decision) Costs Fine Practitioner to undertake and complete further legal education Practitioner's practice to be subjected to periodic inspection Reprimand $1,000.00

Allegation / charges

1. Breach of trust account provisions by failing to deposit trust monies into a trust account (x4) 2. Breach of trust account provisions by: failed to retain duplicate receipts for trust money failed to maintain a record of trust cheques failed to maintain a record of daily trust payment transactions failed to prepare monthly trust reconciliation statements failed to maintain a trust journal failed to keep a separate trust ledger account for separate persons failed to prepare monthly trust trial balance — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct for multiple breaches of trust account provisions, including failing to deposit trust monies into a trust account (four instances) and failing to maintain required trust accounting records (duplicate receipts, trust cheque records, daily payment transaction records, monthly reconciliation statements, a trust journal, separate trust ledger accounts, and monthly trust trial balances). No express finding of dishonesty is recorded, and the excerpt does not state a sanction.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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