Decision record
Krayem, Ghaith
Allegation / charges
1. Breach Clause 36 of the Legal Profession Regulation 1994 by failing to prepare monthly bank reconciliations 2. Breach Clause 39 of the Legal Profession Regulation 1994 by failing to prepare monthly trial balances of trust ledger 3. Wilful breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys 4. Wilful breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - keeping of trust accounts 5. Breach Clause 33(1) of the Legal Profession Regulations by failing to deposit money into trust account 6. Gross delay in transferring a property 7. Providing a false certificate of title 8. Falsely altering the date of a transfer document 9. Failure to pay stamp duty 10. Issuing a cheque for a client's debt that was not met on presentation 11. Misleading own Counsel as to security over Counsel fees 12. Gross delay in paying Counsel's fees 13. False statement to client 14. Failure to honour undertaking to the Supreme Court 15. Failure to act on client's instructions — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner faced 15 charges including trust account regulation breaches, wilful breaches of the Legal Profession Act, gross delay in property and fee matters, providing a false certificate of title, falsely altering a transfer document date, making false statements, and failing to honour a Supreme Court undertaking, amounting to professional misconduct. The provided text lists the findings but does not record an express dishonesty finding or a specific sanction.
Duties found breached:
- Overriding duty to the court
- Avoid wasting the court's time
- No improper communication with the court
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- No conflict between current clients
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Report serious misconduct of others
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
- Overriding duty to the court
- Avoid wasting the court's time
- No improper communication with the court
- Honesty
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- No conflict between current clients
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
- Report serious misconduct of others
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
- Honour professional undertakings
Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=da5ca7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e