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Krayem, Ghaith

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor
Case number[2004] NSWADT 240
Date19-Oct-2004
HearingCouncil of the Law Society of New South Wales
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Breach Clause 36 of the Legal Profession Regulation 1994 by failing to prepare monthly bank reconciliations</p><p>2. Breach Clause 39 of the Legal Profession Regulation 1994 by failing to prepare monthly trial balances of trust ledger</p><p>3. Wilful breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys</p><p>4. Wilful breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - keeping of trust accounts</p><p>5. Breach Clause 33(1) of the Legal Profession Regulations by failing to deposit money into trust account</p><p>6. Gross delay in transferring a property</p><p>7. Providing a false certificate of title</p><p>8. Falsely altering the date of a transfer document</p><p>9. Failure to pay stamp duty</p><p>10. Issuing a cheque for a client's debt that was not met on presentation</p><p>11. Misleading own Counsel as to security over Counsel fees</p><p>12. Gross delay in paying Counsel's fees</p><p>13. False statement to client</p><p>14. Failure to honour undertaking to the Supreme Court</p><p>15. Failure to act on client's instructions</p> — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The matter concerned findings of professional misconduct comprising multiple trust account breaches under the Legal Profession Act 1987 and Regulations, gross delays in property transfer and payment of Counsel's fees, providing a false certificate of title, falsely altering a transfer document date, false statement to a client, misleading Counsel, failure to pay stamp duty, a dishonoured cheque, failure to honour an undertaking to the Supreme Court, and failure to act on instructions. The provided text does not state any express finding of dishonesty or specify 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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