Decision record
Howard A. Lettman
Allegation / charges
Guilty of Professional Misconduct | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered July 20, 2019. || Struck off, Restitution Ordered | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered November 13, 2019 View PDF DECISION OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The complainant, a hairdresser in London purchasing land in Jamaica, paid the attorney (who acted for the vendor and had carriage of sale) a deposit and fees totalling $834,950, plus further expenses for documents required by her lender. The attorney failed to stamp the agreement and failed to send the certificate of title and other documents to her lender despite repeated requests, causing the loan to be cancelled and the purchase to fail. She also could not recover her deposit. The panel accepted her as a witness of truth and found the attorney inexcusably negligent, responsible for her losses, and that he brought the profession into disrepute. He was found guilty of professional misconduct and in breach of Canon 1(b). Sanction was adjourned to September 25, 2019 for mitigation submissions; no penalty was imposed in this decision. No dishonesty was found.
Duties found breached:
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
- 116 of 2015
- 57 of 2008
- 57 of 2008
- 212 of 2017
- 215 of 2017
- 16 of 2016
- 212 of 2017
- 16 of 2016
- 124 of 2015
- 7 of 2017
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Documents
Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/howard-a-lettman-complaint-no-215-of-2017/