Jasmine Dominic

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

The Legal Services Commissioner brought two charges against Jasmine Dominic: failing to bank client trust monies into a trust account and engaging in legal practice as a sole practitioner in breach of conditions on her practising certificate. She received cash and direct payments from a client (Ms Smith), plus a $20,000 settlement cheque paid into her Enlightened Justice account rather than her employer's trust account. QCAT found professional misconduct, concluded she was probably permanently unfit to practise, and recommended her name be removed from the roll. She was ordered to pay the applicant's costs on a standard basis. No express finding of dishonesty was made. A compensation application by the client was adjourned.

Duties found breached:

• Uphold public trust in the profession
• No baseless or threatened misconduct report

Aggravating factors:

• Serious and repeated breaches of fundamental legal and fiduciary obligations owed to a client regarding client money
• Lack of any proper insight into the nature and gravity of her defalcations
• Received $20,000 settlement cheque made payable to Enlightened Justice and deposited into non-trust account while employed elsewhere

Mitigating factors:

• Cooperated by signing a joint statement of admitted facts
• Did not contest the application and effectively conceded unfitness to practise