Jasmin Dhillon

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

Family/real estate lawyer Jasmin Dhillon entered a Rule 3-7.1 consent agreement admitting professional misconduct for extensive trust accounting failures between 2020 and 2022, including failing to maintain proper records, causing 13 trust shortages, failing to report large shortages, improperly taking residual trust balances, backdating trust reconciliations to mislead the Law Society, and filing a Trust Report with false or misleading answers. She agreed to a six-week suspension followed by practice under a trust supervision agreement. The decision did not make an express finding of dishonesty, referring instead to attempts to mislead. No fine or costs were specified.

Duties found breached:

• No improper use of client money
• Accounting records, reconciliation and reports
• Self-report to the regulator
• Report serious misconduct of others

Aggravating factors:

• Backdating trust reconciliations to mislead the Law Society
• Submitting a Trust Report with false or misleading representations

Mitigating factors:

• No prior professional conduct record; five-year call at time of misconduct
• Significant family stressors as a new first-time mother and single parent
• No financial benefit or material advantage gained and no clients financially harmed
• Took significant steps to address accounting issues
• Fully cooperated, admitted misconduct, and consented to suspension and trust supervision