Decision record
Galloway, Brett William
Allegation / charges
1. Breaches of Section 262 of the Legal Profession Act 2004 - deficiency in trust account 2. Failure to report Trust irregularities to the Society contrary to Section 263(i) of the Legal Profession Act 2004 3. Causing unidentified transactions to be posted to a miscellaneous Trust ledger 4. Unauthorised payments from the Trust account to the office account 5. Failure to implement a compliant trust account record 6. Failure to deposit transit money received in cash into its trust account 7. Failure to lodge an External Examiners Report within the required period 8. Failure to report to Austrac significant cash transactions 9. Failure to supervise staff 10. Failure to pay superannuation entitlements and annual leave entitlements and provide a Group Certificate to an employee — Professional Misconduct
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The practitioner was found to have committed professional misconduct arising from multiple trust account and regulatory failures, including trust account deficiencies, unauthorised transfers to office account, failure to report irregularities and cash transactions, inadequate supervision, and failure to meet employee entitlements. No express finding of dishonesty is recorded in the excerpt, and no sanction details are stated.
Duties found breached:
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- Handle inadvertently received material
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Supervise staff and delegated work
- Report serious misconduct of others
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=9d59a7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e