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Laftsidis, Dimitrios

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — (Formerly) S L Lawyers|(Formerly) SL Legal Pty Ltd|(Formerly) Sarvaas Ciappara
Case number[2010] NSWADT 317
Date10-Dec-2010
HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

1. Breach of trust account provisions, by withdrawing monies from trust without any authority to do so<BR/>2. Breach of trust acocunt provisions, by failing to transfer monies received on trust to a trust account<BR/>3. Breach of trust account provisions, by mixing trust money with other monies (x 2)<BR/>4. Breach of trust account provisions, by causing a deficiency in the trust account without reasonable excuse (x2)<BR/>5. Breach of trust account provisions, by failing to keep any raesonable records in relation to trust monies received<BR/>6. Misappropriation of trust monies (x3)<BR/>7. Breach of Solicitors Rules by borrowing from a client (x2)<BR/>8. Making false entries in the Office of State Revenue electronic duties return program — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundYes

The practitioner faced multiple charges of breaching trust account provisions, misappropriation of trust monies, borrowing from clients, and making false entries in the OSR electronic duties return program, constituting professional misconduct.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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