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Yoon, Seog Won

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — El Khan Legal
Case number[2019] NSWCATOD 28
Date20-Feb-2019
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Order recommending removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Australian Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Breached section 254 LPA 2004 - Certain trust money to be deposited in a general trust account<BR/>2. Breached section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money<BR/>3. Breached section 260 LPA 2004 - Intermixing money<BR/>4. Breached section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records<BR/>5. Breached section 325 LPA 2004 - the prohibition on contingency fees<BR/>6. Misappropriated trust funds<BR/>7. Failed to comply with a section 370 notice — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct through breaches of the Legal Profession Act 2004, including failures to deposit and properly hold, disburse and account for trust money, intermixing of money, inadequate trust records, charging prohibited contingency fees, misappropriation of trust funds, and failure to comply with a section 370 notice. The provided text does not specify a sanction or any finding of dishonesty.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

  • Decision 2016-03-17 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Suspension of Practising Certificate until 30 June 2016 $0.…

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