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Kennedy, Jarrod Ross

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — (Formerly) Mills Oakley Lawyers (Principal)
Case number[2011] NSWADT 313
Date16-Aug-2011
HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Misappropriation (x141)</p><p>2. Failure to account (x89)</p><p>3. Wilful breach Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1984 - Handling of trust monies (x93)</p><p>4. Wilful breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1984 - keeping of trust accounts (x97)</p><p>5. Wilful breach of Section 255 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - holding, disbursing and account for trust money (x28)</p><p>6. Wilful breach of Section 257 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - transit money (x 4)</p><p>7. Wilful breach of Section 262 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - Deficiency in trust account (x 12)</p><p>8. Wilful breach of Section 264 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - keeping proper trust records in relation to trust money received (x23)</p><p>9. Defrauding or attempting to defraud the Office of State Revenue (x61)</p><p>10. Drawing false invoice (x1)<img src=" http://www.disciplinaryregister.justice.nsw.gov.au/icons/ecblank.gif&quot ; height="1" width="1"></p> — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundYes

The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct involving 141 counts of misappropriation, 89 counts of failure to account, numerous wilful breaches of trust account provisions under the Legal Profession Acts 1984 and 2004, 61 counts of defrauding or attempting to defraud the Office of State Revenue, and drawing a false invoice. The conduct involving misappropriation and fraud reflects dishonesty. No sanction or costs orders are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=fd58a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e