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Leslie, James Edward

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Leslie Hargrave Pty Ltd
Case number[2020] NSWCATOD 81
Date23-Jul-2020
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeOrder recommending removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Australian Lawyers $0.00

Allegation / charges

Ground 1: Caused a deficiency in the trust account Ground 2: Misappropriated trust funds Ground 3: Manipulated trust accounting records to conceal misappropriation of trust money Ground 4: Breaches of trust account obligations under the Uniform Law Ground 5: Breach of section 139 of the Uniform Law - Controlled money Ground 6: Failure to comply with a notice under s370 of the Uniform Law — Professional Misconduct

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The provided text only lists six grounds relating to trust account deficiencies, misappropriation of trust funds, manipulation of trust accounting records, breaches of trust account obligations under the Uniform Law, breach of s139 (controlled money), and failure to comply with a s370 notice (professional misconduct). No tribunal findings, sanctions, or costs are stated in the text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

  • [2021] NSWCA 59 2021-04-21 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Costs Removal of lawyer's name from the Roll of Local Lawye…
  • Decision 2017-11-16 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Immediate suspension of Practising Certificate for year end…
  • [2013] NSWADT 81 2013-04-02 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales · Costs Fine Reprimand Leave granted to the Complainant pursu…

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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=db59a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e