Decision record

Connolly, Steven John

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — Boulevarde Lawyers

Case number[2018] NSWCATOD 43

Date23-Mar-2018

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00

Allegation / charges

1. Breached section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money 2. Breached section 261(1)(b) LPA 2004 - Dealing with trust money: legal costs and unclaimed money 3. Breached section 263 LPA 2004 - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities 4. Breached section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records 5. Caused a deficiency in the trust account and/or trust account ledger 6. Breached clause 88 of the Legal Profession Regulation 2004 - Withdrawing trust money for legal costs 7. Engaged in unethical conduct 8. Failed to provide an itemised account 9. Behaved inappropriately towards a client — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct involving multiple breaches of the Legal Profession Act 2004 relating to trust money handling, record keeping, reporting irregularities, causing a deficiency in the trust account, unethical conduct, failing to provide an itemised account, and behaving inappropriately towards a client. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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