Decision record
Lee, Ricky Jose
Allegation / charges
Not a fit and proper person to hold a practising certificate. Solicitor has demonstrated that he is currently unable to carry out satisfactorily the inherent requirements of practice as an Australian legal practitioner as he has: Failed to obey the law and failed to perform the day-to-day tasks associated with providing legal services, by failing to have the trust records of the Law Practice externally examined’ by a suitably qualified person for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022; Failed to perform the day-to-day tasks associated with providing legal services, by failing to respond to correspondence from the Director in relation to the failure to have the trust records of the Law Practice externally examined for 2020/2021 and 2021/22.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The tribunal found the solicitor was not a fit and proper person to hold a practising certificate and currently unable to satisfactorily carry out the inherent requirements of legal practice. This was based on his failure to have the Law Practice's trust records externally examined for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, and his failure to respond to correspondence from the Director about that failure. No express finding of dishonesty was made, and no specific sanction figures 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
No documents recorded.
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=39a33765-7e05-494f-9f06-a1fc8aa1acc5