Lancelot A. St. Martin Cowan

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

The Disciplinary Committee found the Respondent guilty of professional misconduct for failing to honour a professional undertaking to deliver a Duplicate Certificate of Title to the Complainant credit union after being unable to settle sums of $1,500,000.00 and $675,000.00. At the sanctions hearing, held in the Respondent's absence, the Panel found his conduct cavalier and egregious. His name was struck from the Record of Attorneys entitled to practice, and he was ordered to pay costs of $400,000.00. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

• No improper communication with the court
• No taking unfair advantage
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Cavalier and egregious disregard for his undertaking
• Failure to compensate the Complainant
• Respondent absented himself from the hearing and showed no interest in addressing the complaint
• Failure to deliver title or pay sums owed as of sanctions hearing