Hovan, George Leslie

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Hovan & Co

Case number[2003] NSWADT 208

Date08-Sep-2003

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

1. Fail to provide accounts 2. Fail to disclose costs 3. Fail to respond to letters 4. Fail to keep accounts 5. Fail to comply with request of Inspector 6. Breach of Section.61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys 7. Breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - keeping of trust accounts 8. Fail to communicate 9. Fail to carry out work assigned 10. Fail to pay third party 11. Fail to appear at hearing 12. Prefer own interests to those of others — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The text lists twelve heads of charge amounting to professional misconduct, including failures relating to accounts, costs disclosure, communication, carrying out work, paying a third party, breaches of Sections 61 and 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 regarding trust moneys/accounts, and preferring own interests to those of others. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction, fine, or costs figures are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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