Antonnette Haughton Cardenas
Allegation / charges
Fined | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered May 22, 2010. View PDF DECISION OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEEOF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCILCOMPLAINT NO. 131/2007 IN THE MATTER of CLIFTON WILLIAMS VS ANTONNETTE HAUGHTON-CARDENAS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND IN THE MATTER OF THE LEGAL …
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The attorney was retained to pursue a personal injury claim after the complainant's May 2001 motor vehicle accident. Despite receiving a police report in March 2003 with sufficient details to file suit, she failed to file the action for four years, allowing the claim to become statute-barred (limitation expiring around 13 May 2007). The Panel found this amounted to inexcusable and deplorable negligence in breach of Canon IV(s). The attorney was fined $800,000 (to be paid to the complainant) and ordered to pay $50,000 costs.
Duties found breached:
Aggravating factors:
- Failure to file action for four years
- Claim allowed to become statute-barred, depriving complainant of remedy
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
- 2 of 2006
- 63 of 2009
- 66 of 2009
- 3 of 2010
- 49 of 2008
- 63 of 2009
- 41 of 2007
- 45 of 2008
- 167 of 2003
- 82 of 2006
Matched by respondent name — may include a different person with the same name.
Documents
Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/antonnette-haughton-cardenas-complaint-no-131-of-2007/