Gurusamy, Baskaran
Allegation / charges
<p>1. Breached section 254 LPA - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account</p><p>2. Breached section 255 LPA - Trust money received in the form of cash</p><p>3. Breached section 260 LPA - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities</p><p>4. Breached section 137 LPUL - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account</p><p>5. Breached section 138 LPUL - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money in general trust account</p><p>6. Breached section 146 LPUL - Intermixing money</p><p>7. Failed to maintain a file register</p><p>8. Failed to disclose to his client a financial benefit that he paid to [a named person] for referring that client</p> — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct arising from multiple trust account breaches under the LPA and LPUL, including failing to deposit trust money properly, handling cash trust money, failing to report irregularities, intermixing money, failing to maintain a file register, and failing to disclose a referral financial benefit to a client. No express finding of dishonesty was made and no sanction is stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Disclose referrals, commissions and benefits
- No conflict between current clients
- Segregate client money
- No improper use of client money
- Report serious misconduct of others
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=bd58a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e