Decision record
Hill, John Frederick William
Allegation / charges
1 .Wilful breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act, 1987 - handling of trust moneys 2. Misappropriation 3. Wilful breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act, 1987 - failure to keep proper accounting records of trust moneys 4. Swearing an affidavit containing a statement known to the solicitor to be false 5. Misleading the Court 6. Procuring a person to swear an affidavit containing a statement known to the solicitor to be false 7. Procuring a person to mislead the Court 8. Wrongfully instructing a broker to sell 1,000 shares in the Commonwealth Bank — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The solicitor was found guilty of professional misconduct arising from wilful breaches of Sections 61 and 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 (mishandling trust moneys and failing to keep proper trust accounting records), misappropriation, swearing and procuring false affidavits, misleading the Court, and wrongfully instructing a broker to sell shares. The excerpt does not set out an express dishonesty finding or the sanction imposed.
Duties found breached:
- Not mislead the court
- Proper basis for allegations
- Not mislead third parties or opponents
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- Handle inadvertently received material
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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