Krayem, Ghaith
Allegation / charges
<p>1. Breach Clause 36 of the Legal Profession Regulation 1994 by failing to prepare monthly bank reconciliations</p><p>2. Breach Clause 39 of the Legal Profession Regulation 1994 by failing to prepare monthly trial balances of trust ledger</p><p>3. Wilful breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys</p><p>4. Wilful breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - keeping of trust accounts</p><p>5. Breach Clause 33(1) of the Legal Profession Regulations by failing to deposit money into trust account</p><p>6. Gross delay in transferring a property</p><p>7. Providing a false certificate of title</p><p>8. Falsely altering the date of a transfer document</p><p>9. Failure to pay stamp duty</p><p>10. Issuing a cheque for a client's debt that was not met on presentation</p><p>11. Misleading own Counsel as to security over Counsel fees</p><p>12. Gross delay in paying Counsel's fees</p><p>13. False statement to client</p><p>14. Failure to honour undertaking to the Supreme Court</p><p>15. Failure to act on client's instructions</p> — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The matter concerned findings of professional misconduct comprising multiple trust account breaches under the Legal Profession Act 1987 and Regulations, gross delays in property transfer and payment of Counsel's fees, providing a false certificate of title, falsely altering a transfer document date, false statement to a client, misleading Counsel, failure to pay stamp duty, a dishonoured cheque, failure to honour an undertaking to the Supreme Court, and failure to act on instructions. The provided text does not state any express finding of dishonesty or specify the sanction imposed.
Duties found breached:
- Overriding duty to the court
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- Act only on proper, lawful instructions
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Safeguard documents and limit liens
- Report serious misconduct of others
- Truthful, non-misleading advertising
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
- Overriding duty to the court
- Honesty
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- Act only on proper, lawful instructions
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
- Safeguard documents and limit liens
- Report serious misconduct of others
- Honour professional undertakings
- Truthful, non-misleading advertising
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=da5ca7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e