Sukpreet Shawn Singh Samra

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

Personal injury lawyer Sukpreet 'Shawn' Singh Samra entered a Rule 3-7.1 consent agreement admitting professional misconduct arising from a 2018 real estate conveyance. Due to a payment setup error, property transfer tax of $4,538 went unpaid, and the lawyer later improperly withdrew those client trust funds for his own use, creating a trust shortage he failed to report promptly. He also made improper cash withdrawals from trust totaling $3,100 and left personal funds over $300 in his trust account. No express finding of dishonesty was made. He agreed to a six-week suspension, a trust supervision practice condition, and remained bound by his undertaking not to practice real estate law.

Duties found breached:

• No improper use of client money
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Prior 2018 compliance audit warning about late withdrawal of fees, comingling personal funds, and non-cheque trust withdrawals
• Professional Conduct Record dating to 2018 including two conduct reviews, two administrative suspensions, and a practice standards undertaking not to practice real estate law

Mitigating factors:

• Returned funds and paid the property transfer tax when error discovered; no harm to clients
• Sincere acknowledgement of mistakes and steps taken to prevent recurrence
• Educated himself on trust accounting rules, took relevant courses, and implemented improved accounting procedures