Decision record
Do, Ngoc Tien
Allegation / charges
1. Breach of section 254 LPA 2004 - Certain trust money to be deposited in general trust account 2. Inappropriately and without authorisation paid monies to himself 3. Failed to arrange registration of transfer of title 4. Numerous breaches of failure to account for monies 5. Breaches of Rule 61 of the Legal Profession Regulation 2005 - Receipting of trust money 6. Delay in prosecuting proceedings 7. Failure to carry out instructions — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct involving multiple trust account breaches under the Legal Profession Act 2004 (s254) and Legal Profession Regulation 2005 (Rule 61), including failing to deposit trust money appropriately, paying monies to himself without authorisation, failing to account for monies, failing to register a transfer of title, delaying prosecution of proceedings, and failing to carry out instructions. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction details are stated in the provided text.
Duties found breached:
- Avoid wasting the court's time
- No improper communication with the court
- No conflict between current clients
- No improper use of client money
- Prompt accounting and return of money
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=5d5ca7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e