Ashworth, Gary John

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Ashlaw Associates

Case number[2016] NSWCATOD 139

Date11-Nov-2016

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

Misappropriation of trust funds 1. Breach of section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money 2. Breach of section 263 LPA 2004 - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities 3. Breach of section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records 4. Failed to refund moneys held in trust 5. Failed to provide a detailed account — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The matter concerned misappropriation of trust funds and related professional misconduct, including breaches of sections 255, 263 and 264 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 relating to holding/disbursing trust money, reporting irregularities and keeping trust records, plus failure to refund trust moneys and to provide a detailed account. 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

Documents

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