Mackenzie, Jacklyn Isabel

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)

Professionsolicitor

Case number[2003] NSWADT 92

Date02-May-2003

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. Sent a letter to another solicitor that was false and with the intention to mislead (x2) 2. Unsatisfactory handling of a client's family law matter 3. Breach of Sections 61 and 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - wilful improper disbursement of trust money (x3) 4. Misappropriation of trust money (x2) 5. Failure to account to client about money recovered from client — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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 and unsatisfactory professional conduct, including sending false and misleading letters to another solicitor, mishandling a family law matter, wilful improper disbursement and misappropriation of trust money, and failing to account to a client. Although the findings involve misappropriation and misleading conduct, the provided text contains no express finding of dishonesty, and no sanction is stated.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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