NSW Caselaw
CITATION: Council of the Law Society of New South Wales v Bharati [2010] NSWADT 159
DIVISION: Legal Services Division
APPLICANT Council of the Law Society of New South Wales PARTIES: RESPONDENT Jyoti Bharati
FILE NUMBER: 092008
HEARING DATES: 1 February 2010
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 26 February 2010
DATE OF DECISION: 25 June 2010
BEFORE: Chesterman M - Deputy President; Currie J - Judicial Member; Tingle J - Non-Judicial Member
CATCHWORDS: Solicitor – professional misconduct – breaches of Legal Profession Act 2004, sections 254, 262 and 264 – misappropriation of trust monies – creation of false trust account receipt – misleading trust account investigators – orders by way of penalty – costs
Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 Crimes Act 1900 LEGISLATION CITED : Legal Profession Act 1987 Legal Profession Act 2004 Legal Profession Regulation 2005
Barry John Penfold [1997] NSWLST 23 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Colin Walter Peck, Unreported, Solicitor's Statutory Committee, 23 April 1981 Dupal v Law Society of New South Wales, Unreported, Court of Appeal, NSW, 26 April 1990, BC9002508 Law Society of New South Wales v Bannister [1993] NSWCA 157 Law Society of New South Wales v Doherty [2009] NSWADT 155 Law Society of New South Wales v Doherty (No 2) [2009] NSWADT 296 Law Society of New South Wales v Goold [2001] NSWADT 171 CASES CITED: Law Society of New South Wales v Green [2001] NSWADT 142 Law Society of New South Wales v McCarthy [2003] NSWADT 198 Law Society of New South Wales v McNamara [2007] NSWADT 162 Law Society of New South Wales v Moulton [1981] 2 NSWLR 736 Law Society of New South Wales v Witherdin [2004] NSWADT 264 Ex parte Lenehan (1948) 77 CLR 403 Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v Holt [2008] NSWCA 136 Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v P [2003] NSWCA 320 Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v Ritchard, Unreported, Court of Appeal, New South Wales, 31 July 1987, BC8701242 R v Patison [2003] NSWCCA 171
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