Decision record
Gurusamy, Baskaran
Allegation / charges
1. Breached section 254 LPA - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account 2. Breached section 255 LPA - Trust money received in the form of cash 3. Breached section 260 LPA - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities 4. Breached section 137 LPUL - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account 5. Breached section 138 LPUL - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money in general trust account 6. Breached section 146 LPUL - Intermixing money 7. Failed to maintain a file register 8. Failed to disclose to his client a financial benefit that he paid to [a named person] for referring that client — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct for numerous breaches of trust money provisions under the LPA and LPUL, including failing to deposit trust money properly, receiving cash trust money, failing to report irregularities, intermixing money, failing to maintain a file register, and failing to disclose a referral benefit paid to a named person. No express finding of dishonesty is stated, and no sanction details are included in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Disclose referrals, commissions and benefits
- No conflict between current clients
- Segregate client money
- No improper use of client money
- Report serious misconduct of others
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=bd58a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e