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Dib, Ghassan

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor
Date26-Nov-2020
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales
OutcomeFine Practitioner to undertake and complete further legal education Reprimand $4,362.28 About ​ About the OLSC The Commissioner History Mission statement Structure Contact ​ Contact the OLSC Give us your feedback: online surveys Access to information (GIPAA) Community information ​ Information for lawyers Fact sheets FAQs Other regulatory and complaint-handling organisations Contact LawAccess NSW for legal information " You and Your Lawyer", Hot ​​Topics 78 Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW​ , provides access to information about the law in NSW regarding your lawyer Privacy Copyright and Disclaimer Website accessibility

Allegation / charges

<ol><li>Breach of section 260 LPA 2004 - Intermixing money</li><li>Caused a deficiency in the trust account</li><li>Breach of section 264(2) LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records</li><li>Breach of section 147(2) LPUL (NSW) - Keeping trust records</li><li>Failure to pay employees' superannuation entitlements</li><li>Gross delay in paying employees' superannuation entitlements</li></ol> — Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct arising from intermixing money, causing a deficiency in the trust account, breaches of trust record-keeping requirements under the LPA 2004 and LPUL (NSW), and failure and gross delay in paying employees' superannuation entitlements. No express finding of dishonesty is recorded, and the provided text does not state the sanction imposed.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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Documents

No documents recorded.

Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail?id=15d3e8a1-1981-4d92-be5e-f49eab757c63