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Howard A. Lettman

JurisdictionJamaica
BodyGeneral Legal Council — Disciplinary Committee (GLC)
Professionattorney
Case number212 of 2017
DateNovember 23, 2019
OutcomeStruck off

Allegation / charges

Struck off | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered November 23, 2019. || Guilty of Professional Misconduct | Disciplinary Committee decision delivered June 01, 2019. View PDF FORMAL ORDER OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL LEGAL COUNCIL COMPLAINT NO: 212/2017 …

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

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundNo

The attorney was retained to sell land in St. Elizabeth for $8.2m and was given the Duplicate Certificate of Title. The sale was not completed and the complainant could not retrieve the title or any information from the attorney, who failed to appear. The Committee found him guilty of professional misconduct for breaching Canons 1(b), IV(r) and IV(s), and ordered him struck off the Roll and to pay costs of $50,000 each to the GLC and the complainant.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["unverified_costs_amount=100000"]

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

  • 116 of 2015 2020-02-15 · GLC · Jamaica · Guilty of Professional Misconduct, Struck off
  • 57 of 2008 2020-01-25 · GLC · Jamaica · Struck off, Restitution ordered
  • 57 of 2008 2019-11-23 · GLC · Jamaica · Guilty of Professional Misconduct
  • 215 of 2017 2019-11-13 · GLC · Jamaica · Struck off, Restitution Ordered
  • 215 of 2017 2019-07-20 · GLC · Jamaica · Guilty of Professional Misconduct
  • 16 of 2016 2019-06-22 · GLC · Jamaica · Suspended until Restitution Complete
  • 212 of 2017 2019-06-01 · GLC · Jamaica · Guilty of Professional Misconduct
  • 16 of 2016 2019-05-25 · GLC · Jamaica · Guilty of Professional Misconduct
  • 124 of 2015 2019-03-09 · GLC · Jamaica · Guilty of Professional Misconduct
  • 7 of 2017 2018-07-28 · GLC · Jamaica · Struck off

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Documents

Source: https://www.generallegalcouncil.org/judgement/howard-a-lettman-complaint-no-212-of-2017-formal-order/