Decision record

Yoon, Seog Won

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales

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

Professionsolicitor — El Khan Legal

Case number[2019] NSWCATOD 28

Date20-Feb-2019

HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division

OutcomeCosts Order recommending removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Australian Lawyers $0.00

Allegation / charges

1. Breached section 254 LPA 2004 - Certain trust money to be deposited in a general trust account 2. Breached section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money 3. Breached section 260 LPA 2004 - Intermixing money 4. Breached section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records 5. Breached section 325 LPA 2004 - the prohibition on contingency fees 6. Misappropriated trust funds 7. Failed to comply with a section 370 notice — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther

Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct through multiple breaches of the Legal Profession Act 2004, including failures relating to trust money deposit, handling, accounting and record-keeping, intermixing of money, charging prohibited contingency fees, misappropriation of trust funds, and failing to comply with a section 370 notice. No express finding of dishonesty is recorded in the provided text, and no sanction is stated.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

Decision 2016-03-17 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Suspension of Practising Certificate until 30 June 2016 $0.…

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