Decision record

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

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 faced findings including sending false and misleading letters to another solicitor, unsatisfactory handling of a family law matter, wilful improper disbursement of trust money in breach of ss 61-62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987, misappropriation of trust money, and failure to account to a client. Conduct was categorised as professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct. No express finding of dishonesty and no sanction are stated in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Documents

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