<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professional Misconduct:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Practitioner received two payments of trust money from his (then) client in June and July 2012 in contravention of section 252 LPA 2004 by depositing those monies into a mortgage account before completing the work for which moneys had been paid in advance and issuing a bill</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct:</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(i) Failed to advise the client of deficiencies in the pleadings</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(ii) Failed to make himself available for conferences, failed to provide submissions and failed to appear at the hearing;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(iii) Delayed in paying an order for costs he was ordered to pay personally;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(iv) Delayed in providing an itemised bill to the client despite numerous requests for same;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(v) Claimed in an itemised bill an entitlement to be paid on the basis of time-based charging in circumstances where he had not a record of the work performed; and</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(vi) Claimed an entitlement to be paid for 44.75 hours of work in one day</span></p>
