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Dinh, Thi To Ngoc

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Vo Lawyers
Date27-Apr-2020
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales
OutcomeCancellation of Practising Certificate for year 2019-2020 and is not entitled to apply for a practising certificate for a period of five years Manager appointed of the law practice known as Vo Lawyers for a period of two years $0.00 Manager Appointed: Yes Manager Appointed

Allegation / charges

The practising certificate of Ms Dinh was cancelled under section 82 and 83 of the Uniform Law on the grounds the Council had formed the reasonable belief the solicitor is unable to fulfill the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner, as a result of a lack of honesty and integrity arising from conduct including:<BR/>(i) Failure to account for trust money and its apparent misappropriation, or failing to report an apparent misappropriation to the Law Society;<BR/>(ii) Failing to discharge her tortious and fiduciary duties to his clients;<BR/>(iii) Failure to be honest in all dealings in the course of legal practice;<BR/>(iv) Failure to respond to the Law Society.<BR/>

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

SanctionRevocation
Dishonesty foundYes

The Council cancelled Ms Dinh's practising certificate under sections 82 and 83 of the Uniform Law, having formed the reasonable belief she was unable to fulfill the inherent requirements of an Australian legal practitioner due to a lack of honesty and integrity. This arose from conduct including failure to account for trust money and its apparent misappropriation, failure to discharge fiduciary and tortious duties to clients, failure to be honest in dealings, and failure to respond to the Law Society.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=375ba7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e