Loverne Annemarie George
Allegation / charges
Struck off, Restitution Ordered | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered April 27, 2019. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 129/2017 IN THE MATTER OF AMELIA ANN ELLIS and LOVERNE ANNMARIE GEORGE …
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (Jamaica) found Attorney Loverne Annmarie George guilty of professional misconduct for receiving a refunded deposit of $2,500,000.00 from a cancelled sale while acting for the complainant, and failing to return it for over two years. She was found to have breached Canon 1(b). The Committee struck her from the Roll, ordered restitution of $2.5 million with interest, and ordered costs of $50,000 to the GLC and $50,000 to the complainant. No express finding of dishonesty was made.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Failed to return client's refunded deposit for over two years
- Attorney did not appear and made no submissions in mitigation
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=100000"]
Duties engaged
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