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Pitsikas, Spero

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — S Pitsikas & Associates
Case number[2006] NSWADT 102
Date07-Apr-2006
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. Failure to account for trust money in breach of Section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987<BR/>2. Failure to keep proper trust records in breach of Section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987<BR/>3. Wilful breaches of trust account regulations<BR/>4. Failure to carry out instructions<BR/>5. Failure to disclose that instructions not followed<BR/>6. Lying to client<BR/>7. Failure to transfer file to new solicitors appointed by client, failure to honour undertaking<BR/>8. Failure to comply with Section 152 Notice — Professional Misconduct Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The text sets out a series of charges against a solicitor including trust account breaches (ss61-62), wilful breaches of trust regulations, failure to follow instructions, lying to a client, failure to transfer a file/honour an undertaking, and failure to comply with a s152 Notice, characterised as professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct. The excerpt contains no express tribunal findings, no explicit finding of dishonesty, and no stated sanction or costs.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

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