Clifton, David Vincent

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Clifton Legal

Case number[2021] NSWCATOD 101

Date27-Jul-2021

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Order recommending removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Australian Lawyers On 10 December 2021, NSW Supreme Court Court of Appeal ordered: 1. The name of the respondent David Vincent Clifton be removed from the roll kept by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. (2) The respondent pay the applicant’s costs. $0.00 Disciplinary Action

Allegation / charges

<ol><li>Breach of section 138(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money in general trust account</li><li>Breach of section 148 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law - Deficiency in trust account</li><li>Breach of section 145 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law - Protection of trust money</li><li>Breaches of sections 135 and 146 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law - Dealing with trust money</li><li>Breaches of section 147(2)(a) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law - Keeping trust records</li><li>Breaches of rules 45 and 47 of the Legal Profession Uniform General Rules 2015 - Trust account payments cash book and recording transactions in trust ledger accounts</li><li>Authorised false tax invoices to be prepared </li></ol> — 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 involving multiple trust account breaches under the Legal Profession Uniform Law and General Rules, including deficiencies in trust accounts, failures in protecting and recording trust money, and authorising the preparation of false tax invoices. The provided text does not include an express finding of dishonesty nor any stated sanction, costs, or aggravating/mitigating factors.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

Decision 2021-08-06 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Refusal to renew the practising certificate for the year en…

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