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Leslie, James Edward

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Leslie Hargrave Pty Ltd
Case number[2021] NSWCA 59
Date21-Apr-2021
HearingSupreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal
OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>Ground 1: Caused a deficiency in the trust account</p><p>Ground 2: Misappropriated trust funds</p><p>Ground 3: Manipulated trust accounting records to conceal misappropriation of trust money</p><p>Ground 4: Breaches of trust account obligations under the Uniform Law</p><p>Ground 5: Breach of section 139 of the Uniform Law - Controlled money</p><p>Ground 6: Failure to comply with a notice under s370 of the Uniform Law</p> — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner faced six grounds including causing a trust account deficiency, misappropriating trust funds, manipulating trust records to conceal misappropriation, breaching trust account obligations and controlled money provisions under the Uniform Law, and failing to comply with a s370 notice. The conduct was characterised as professional misconduct. The provided text does not state any express finding of dishonesty or 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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