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Leslie, James Edward

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Leslie Hargrave Pty Ltd
Case number[2020] NSWCATOD 81
Date23-Jul-2020
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeOrder recommending removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Australian Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>Ground 1: Caused a deficiency in the trust account</p><p>Ground 2: Misappropriated trust funds</p><p>Ground 3: Manipulated trust accounting records to conceal misappropriation of trust money</p><p>Ground 4: Breaches of trust account obligations under the Uniform Law</p><p>Ground 5: Breach of section 139 of the Uniform Law - Controlled money</p><p>Ground 6: Failure to comply with a notice under s370 of the Uniform Law</p> — 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 arising from causing a deficiency in the trust account, misappropriating trust funds, manipulating trust accounting records to conceal the misappropriation, breaching trust account obligations and controlled money provisions (s139) under the Uniform Law, and failing to comply with a s370 notice. The provided text does not include an express finding of dishonesty or details of the sanction imposed.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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