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Courtney Akinwale Kazembe

JurisdictionJamaica
BodyGeneral Legal Council — Disciplinary Committee (GLC)
Professionattorney
Case number139 of 2017
DateSeptember 15, 2018
OutcomeFined

Allegation / charges

Fined | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered September 15, 2018. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 139/2017 IN THE MATTER OF GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL (ALLAN WOOD Q.C.) and COURTNEY KAZEMBE an …

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

SanctionFine
CostsJMD 50,000
Dishonesty foundNo

Attorney Courtney Kazembe admitted, through Counsel, to breaching the Legal Profession (Accounts and Records) Regulations for multiple years (2002-2008, 2010-2012, 2014-2015). The Committee found these breaches amounted to professional misconduct under section 12(1)(a) of the Legal Profession Act. He was ordered to pay a fine of J$50,000 for each year in breach plus J$50,000 costs, totalling J$650,000. No express finding of dishonesty was made.

Duties found breached:

Mitigating factors:

  • Attorney admitted the breaches through Counsel

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_fine_amount=600000"]

Duties engaged

Documents

Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/courtney-akinwale-kazembe-complaint-no-139-of-2017-formal-order/