Marie Judy-Ann Chambers

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

The Respondent, an attorney entitled to practise in Jamaica, applied for and received practising certificates for 2004-2010 but failed to file any Accountant's Reports or declarations for those years. She did not attend any of the hearings nor offer any explanation. The panel, applying the criminal standard, found her guilty of grave professional misconduct under Regulation 16(1) and 17 of the Accounts and Records Regulations. Her name was struck from the Roll and she was ordered to pay $100,000 towards costs.

Duties found breached:

• Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Failure to file reports for seven consecutive years (2004-2010)
• No explanation offered for the conduct despite multiple opportunities
• No effort or intention shown to remedy the breaches
• Repeated failure to attend hearings

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=100000"]