Decision record

Leslie, James Edward

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Leslie Hargrave Pty Ltd

Case number[2021] NSWCA 59

Date21-Apr-2021

HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal

OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00

Allegation / charges

Ground 1: Caused a deficiency in the trust account Ground 2: Misappropriated trust funds Ground 3: Manipulated trust accounting records to conceal misappropriation of trust money Ground 4: Breaches of trust account obligations under the Uniform Law Ground 5: Breach of section 139 of the Uniform Law - Controlled money Ground 6: Failure to comply with a notice under s370 of the Uniform Law — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The text sets out six grounds against the practitioner relating to trust account misconduct under the Uniform Law, including causing a trust account deficiency, misappropriating trust funds, manipulating trust records to conceal misappropriation, various trust account breaches, breach of s139 (controlled money), and failure to comply with an s370 notice (professional misconduct). No tribunal findings, sanction, or costs orders are contained in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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